Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently

Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by markbnj on Saturday April 30, 2016 @03:35PM (#11603174)

Google is certainly a 100% essential tool for programming. I use it constantly, every day, and I am sure basically every single developer does the same. The most essential point in the post, imo, is that on any given project you have to wade through the details of dozens of components and tools. There's only so much room in the average brain.

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by stephenr on Saturday April 30, 2016 @03:43PM (#11603217)

Google? No. A search engine? I'd say the vast majority of developers use one for some part of their job, yes

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by ahmedbaracat on Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:00PM (#11603316)

May I ask you what other search engines are you referring to?

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by stephenr on Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:13PM (#11603360)

Personally, I use DDG. Others may use bing, my point was to buck the Kleenex-ation of Google.

I don't Google things, or DDG things. I search for things

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by bobbytherobot on Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:38PM (#11603454)

I use DDG on my non-work machines. Google is better at finding stuff for programming, particularly the random error messages.

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by passivepinetree on Sunday May 01, 2016 @12:08AM (#11604823)

I've tried to use DDG for programming but I've found that Google's efficiency is just too good to make DDG worthwhile. I guess I've decided to take the privacy hit in regards to developing activities.

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by stephenr on Sunday May 01, 2016 @02:03AM (#11605073)

What are up searching for that ddg doesn't work? I find myself usually knowing sort of where to look, and often using !bangs or the site: limiter

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by mr_spothawk on Sunday May 01, 2016 @02:19AM (#11605119)

you can use DDG as a default search engine, and search in google when you want by adding the "g!" flag to your query. it will kick you over to a non(less?)-tracked version of Google.

and you might find DDG is much better for devs. they have built in language guides and various other conveniences.

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by markbnj on Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:23PM (#11603393)

Right, agreed, "search engine" is what I should have said, although I suspect that even among developers Google search would be the heavy winner in terms of use.

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by 3dk on Saturday April 30, 2016 @06:46PM (#11603982)

I'd like to recommend http://searx.me/.

It shows results from various different search engines which you can choose from.

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Re:Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently by sdegutis on Saturday April 30, 2016 @06:32PM (#11603931)

Google provides me with the best results, by far, compared to Bing or DDG. So yeah, Google.

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