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"Many search engines"? How many search engines do you use? And which of them ignore or error on 2-letter words? I just tried this on the only four search eng

by jholman 14y ago

"Many search engines"? How many search engines do you use? And which of them ignore or error on 2-letter words? I just tried this on the only four search engines I can even think of that seemed like they MIGHT matter: google, bing, ddg, and stackoverflow's site-specific. All four obviously respected the two-letter word "go" (although for my searches only Google and SO returned results I found useful).

TylerE 14y ago
Most message board software, for a site. Search engine doesn't just mean web search engine.
- jlgreco 14y ago
  I am not surprised that shitty message board search functionality was not considered when naming the language (How do you even search for "C" with such a system?)
- jholman 14y ago
  First of all, the best way to site-search is to use Google. Seriously, why are you hurting yourself? Second of all, I can't understand the situation where this would come up. Obviously in normal circumstances it doesn't even come up. * You wanna search all forums at once? Use Google (or DDG, or the shitty one). * There's a Go-specific forum? So obviously you don't need to specify Go in the search. * The forum isn't about Go? Then why are you searching there? So for your complaint to make sense, you need to have a particular forum you want to limit your searches to, AND you don't want to use Google with site:stupidforum.com, AND the forum covers multiple programming languages, AND the forum doesn't have a tagging system to tag go-lang posts (like basically every programming forum does), AND it has this problem I've never heard of where it rejects 2-letter words? I'm really trying to avoid just saying "bullshit", but I think you're bullshitting us. Name one such forum. Again, as I asked in the grandparent comment, name one search engine where you, or anyone you know personally, has had this problem.

by jholman 14y ago

TylerE 14y ago

Most message board software, for a site. Search engine doesn't just mean web search engine.

jlgreco 14y ago
I am not surprised that shitty message board search functionality was not considered when naming the language (How do you even search for "C" with such a system?)
jholman 14y ago
First of all, the best way to site-search is to use Google. Seriously, why are you hurting yourself? Second of all, I can't understand the situation where this would come up. Obviously in normal circumstances it doesn't even come up. * You wanna search all forums at once? Use Google (or DDG, or the shitty one). * There's a Go-specific forum? So obviously you don't need to specify Go in the search. * The forum isn't about Go? Then why are you searching there? So for your complaint to make sense, you need to have a particular forum you want to limit your searches to, AND you don't want to use Google with site:stupidforum.com, AND the forum covers multiple programming languages, AND the forum doesn't have a tagging system to tag go-lang posts (like basically every programming forum does), AND it has this problem I've never heard of where it rejects 2-letter words? I'm really trying to avoid just saying "bullshit", but I think you're bullshitting us. Name one such forum. Again, as I asked in the grandparent comment, name one search engine where you, or anyone you know personally, has had this problem.