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There's a simple way around that. Nothing to install. Nothing to update. Just go to SO and use its search bar. It's actually quite good. I mean, you know that
by Surfactant7 4y ago
There's a simple way around that. Nothing to install. Nothing to update.
Just go to SO and use its search bar. It's actually quite good.
I mean, you know that's where you'll want to find the answer anyway - not some random corporate webpage or ad-infested splog. Why not cut out the middle man?
Only if that fails do I bother with Google.
- burnished 4y agoHuh, you know, you're right. I recently did that and it was fine. I think a lot of others formed their opinion (myself muchly included) about this from sites where the search bar was a joke played on people. Edit: let me upgrade that 'fine' to 'great', now that I think about it it was actually better than a google search which was not my previous experience.
- watchdogtimer 4y agoOr, if DuckDuckGo is your default search engine, you can append ' !so' to your search term.
- avereveard 4y agoGoogle index used to be fairly more competent at finding relevant issues for a query, especially if some words were synonyms of what found in the snippets at even loosely related
- thejosh 4y agoBecause it's not just SO I want answers from. It's blogs people post, social media such as Reddit, HN, etc. I've found some fantastic articles out there, yes SO is a fantastic resource but there is an entire internet out there :-)