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I totally agree. In the beginning, I was !g a lot. These days, I mostly !g for more natural language kind of questions. For more technical searches, Google has
by Derbasti 13y ago
I totally agree. In the beginning, I was !g a lot. These days, I mostly !g for more natural language kind of questions.
For more technical searches, Google has become next to useless for me. "lupdate.exe not working Qt" transforms to "did you mean 'Update not working'?" (lupdate.exe is part of the Qt translation toolchain and Windows forces it to run as admin only because there is "update" in its file name. The Google 'correction' of that is perfectly useless).
- protomyth 13y agoThe second huge fail of google with technical queries is when it starts substituting synonyms for words in your query the make the search useless. It makes you not want to name commands in a common sense style.
- cerberusss 13y agoYeah but DDG does this as well. Try searching for NSString. It'll actually search for strings.
- protomyth 13y agoIt seems to be all NSString for a while. Am I missing something?
- jmpe 13y agoFor more technical searches, Google has become next to useless for me. Same here. I used to have corrections for java -> javascript but that seems to have been fixed. Just this morning I tried searching for this: µC/gui button detach ... "detach" gets corrected to "remove" and "disconnect", resulting in useless links. The top 2 links are general features overview pages. Which is odd, because googling this: button detach results in lots of uncorrected queries for event delegation. You'd think that adding "µC/gui" would narrow the context, but no.
- lmm 13y agoI use an extension to always set google to Verbatim search results. It works very nicely.