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I don't see how this is better than let me google that for you. Google is a far better search engine for searching on SO ( and you can get non-SO relevant hits
by deletes 13y ago
I don't see how this is better than let me google that for you. Google is a far better search engine for searching on SO ( and you can get non-SO relevant hits), unless you decide to use tags, which letmestackoverflowthatforyou doesn't use.
- BWStearns 13y agoNeither LMSOTFY or LMGTFY are really truly useful tools, they're good ways to shame people who ask before searching. If I am actually looking for an answer on SO I would probably google. If I wanted to screw with someone, then LMSOTFY might be useful since the main utility isn't the search function.
- cruise02 13y agoStack Overflow's search automatically converts search terms to tags if they happen to be a common enough tag, so that's taken care of when the search is submitted to SO. (Try searching for "Java String" for example.) The problem I have with this is that the world didn't really need yet another snarky "Let me X that for you" site. This doesn't make the Internet better. LMGTFY links are banned on Stack Overflow because they fail at being either clever or useful. Using Stack Overflow's name and logo for this strikes me as rather dickish.