How is search so bad? A case study

Re:How is search so bad? A case study by AlexCoventry on Sunday January 19, 2020 @09:04PM (#22095654)

> a Github/bugtracker issue, which was nowhere in the search results, were the exact error message appears verbatim.

Did you put the error message in quotes? I've never had this problem.

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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by inetknght on Sunday January 19, 2020 @11:54PM (#22096414)

I, too, have pasted error messages verbatim into Google queries only to have garbage returned. I did include the error message in quotes. I started filtering sites from the results eg `-site:quora.com site:stackoverflow.com site:github.com` etc to start to get a hint of other developers with similar issues and/or some bug reports and/or documentation and/or source code.

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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by unityByFreedom on Monday January 20, 2020 @01:26AM (#22096742)

> -site:quora.com site:stackoverflow.com site:github.com`

A mock-google that excludes quora and optionally targets stackoverflow/github sounds useful.

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