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Re:The next Google by nuancebydefault on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:15PM (#30925137)
Gave it another try with "ssh scp". Google's first result explains me how to use scp (ssh provides a hint about the context), which was what i would be looking for. Marganilla... not so much it seems
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Re:The next Google by marginalia_nu on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:28PM (#30925274)
https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=scp&profile=yolo&j... tho
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Re:The next Google by nuancebydefault on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:19PM (#30937537)
The second hit links to a man page of scp. It is a formal description of the syntax, not what I was looking for... I'd rather have a short intro and a few examples of typical usage instead, am I being pedantic? If i wanted a formal description i would google 'scp cli', 'scp options' or even 'man scp'. Also, on a tangent, to be honest -- I find searching simply for 'scp' not a very clever approach. How did Marginalia guess it would be the cli tool and not one of the other acronyms?
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Re:The next Google by marginalia_nu on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:25PM (#30937594)
Yeah that's not the sort of search engine this is. If you search for SCP, it will show you documents where that term is relevant, using domain ranking as a tiebreaker. It's quite intentionally not trying to read your mind.

I think it showed the man page first because that domain is highly ranked.

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