The site is designed beautifully to distract me to look around how it has been implemented rather than the main topic - search tips. Yes, Font could have been better for readability :)
Internet Search Tips
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#12Thanks for the article, this reminded me of GHDB;
https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database
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#13Quite relevant and useful. For articles that are blocked by a paywall I usually search the article URL on www.archive.org and there's usually an unblocked one there.
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#14I see Gwern doesn't encourage using operands in DDG. Maybe that's because DDG ignores them.
DDG does support some search operands. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sy...
We're both correct. They support and ignore operands.
"cats and dogs": Results for exact term "cats and dogs". If no results are found, we'll try to show related results.
The entire point of using quotes (or + back in the day) is to limit the results to the search term. Fluffling up the results with stuff we aren't asking for forces us to consider and disregard each one of those unasked-for results - until we get frustrated and go to Google.
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#15A neat trick that is not presented is to use https://www.connectedpapers.com/
The website presents a graph of related works clustered by similarities.
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#16Great set of tips. On a side note, I wish the site had a simple, easy to read fonts option similar to the switchable light/dark mode.
Maybe your browser's reader mode fits the bill? Firefox allows to choose serif/sans-serif fonts, font-size, line spacing and background color for example.
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#17I want to add a suggestion to the hotkey shortcuts section: I use the Chrome/Firefox addon SurfingKeys [0] with my own configuration [1] in which I’ve added search engine auto-suggestions for just over 50 sites. So, for example, to start searching Google Scholar I type `ags`, or to search GitHub I type `agh`. Check out the screenshots [2] to see what I mean.
I’m currently working on cleaning up the code and making installation as simple as pasting a GitHub release URL into the SurfingKeys settings. I hope to have this done within a week or two.
[0]: https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
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#18Great set of tips. On a side note, I wish the site had a simple, easy to read fonts option similar to the switchable light/dark mode.
Maybe your browser's reader mode fits the bill? Firefox allows to choose serif/sans-serif fonts, font-size, line spacing and background color for example.
I hesitate to admit this, because it makes me look stupid but you are right.
I should remember to use the reader mode more often.
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#19I miss the days when Google was AND search always and by default.
Now they're terrified of not returning any results. Even when there aren't any results, they return a page full of ads that looks like results - at some point in the last dozen years, the empty "no results found" google page bit the dust.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
DDG does support some search operands. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sy...
We're both correct. They support and ignore operands. "cats and dogs": Results for exact term "cats and dogs". If no results are found, we'll try to show related results. The entire point of using quotes (or + back in the day) is to limit the results to the search term. Fluffling up the results with stuff we aren't asking for forces us to consider and disregard each one of those unasked-for results - until we get fru…
Google does this shit too, to a slightly lesser extent.