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I agree that as a programmer who frequently needs to search for long literal strings verbatim, Google has become notably less useful than it used to be. I wond
by fergie 3y ago
I agree that as a programmer who frequently needs to search for long literal strings verbatim, Google has become notably less useful than it used to be.
I wonder if there is now a gap in the market for some kind of "literal" search engine that makes no attempt to infer meaning on your search terms and simply gives you the closest results? In other words Google ca 2012.
- btown 3y agohttps://publicwww.com/ https://publicwww.com/ is a great tool for this, though the size of its index leaves a lot to be desired. Still, for enumerating well-SEO'd homepages that use a certain tech stack, it's quite useful!
- minikomi 3y agoHave you tried grep.app ?
- xtracto 3y agoFor technical stuff I've long replaced Google search with phind.com even just pasting so.e generic error spit from the console works.