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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by maest on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:42PM (#21429602)
Regarding technical queries, they consistently return links to the python 2 docs, never python 3.

What I assume people do is they click on the python 2 docs then change the version on the python website. So, from bings perspective it looks like people want the python 2 links. It always frustrates me and makes looking stuff up longer than needed.

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by gspetr on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:31PM (#21431151)
There is a very easy workflow remedy for this, if DDG is your default search engine: type "!py [topic]"

For example, I tried searching for "python lists" in my address bar (DDG is my default) and I got all sorts of garbage.

Next, I typed "!py lists" and the browser immediately opened this page for me: https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=lists

So that works really nice if what you need is Python's native docs.

But there's more to "bang" syntax usage, now totaling over 13,000 bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang#bangs-list

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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by maest on Sunday November 03, 2019 @01:24PM (#21435599)
Nice tip, I'll try that next time, thanks!
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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by pmarreck on Sunday November 03, 2019 @03:14PM (#21436273)
TIL about the DDG Bang feature. Wow.
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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by m463 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:27PM (#21459151)
wow this may reduce my trips via ddg to stack overflow.
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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by ConceptJunkie on Saturday November 02, 2019 @07:55PM (#21430974)
Yeah, this is what I always do as well. Python is going EOL in less than two months. I hope that helps.
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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by m463 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:26PM (#21459143)
Maybe you need to run 2to3 on your search results? ;)
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Re:Google are removing URLs entirely from search results? by jakeogh on Saturday November 02, 2019 @04:32PM (#21429877)
qwant hands back py3 links: https://lite.qwant.com/?q=python+builtin+exceptions
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