Nowadays I think you will find that if you speak to the search engine in the form of a question and in as plain terms as possible you'll have better results than by formulating it in keywords and google-fu like in the early days. I find that developers who "try to think in search engine" have gotten increasingly worse results over time as the search engine adapted to the general population's way of using it. This is all personal anecdata though, so you might want to try different ways that work for you.

This makes sense - however the search engine is just a proxy to the content on websites. I should have probably been more clear in my original comment. What I was really referring to, is when you are sitting there trying to think how other people might ask a question when the way you are originally asking it is not turning up good results.

Many times someone essentially solved their problem while in the act of formulating the question to ask me what to do about it.

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