This is more useful than I thought it was going to be. Specially the "-" for exclusion is new to me, and I can recollect a few times where that would have been handy to know.
Especially excluding Pinterest results while searching for images ;)
Get better at Googling
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Re: Get better at Googling
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
That, and knowing how to ask questions on StackOverflow or in IRC/Discord/Slack/Matrix.
Man, I really wish SO had a "Close question because answer is in the documentation" option. They'd see their traffic halve overnight.
It's the other way as well, if a question gets asked/answered on SO, it may be a great addition to the documentation.
Re: Get better at Googling
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
That, and knowing how to ask questions on StackOverflow or in IRC/Discord/Slack/Matrix.
Man, I really wish SO had a "Close question because answer is in the documentation" option. They'd see their traffic halve overnight.
Sometimes searching StackOverflow is quicker than reading the documentation/manual.
Re: Get better at Googling
#14More?
have at it:
https://www.google.com/advanced_search
https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
"Google Dorking"
Re: Get better at Googling
#15This is more useful than I thought it was going to be. Specially the "-" for exclusion is new to me, and I can recollect a few times where that would have been handy to know.
It's funny how this knowledge seems to get lost these days because they try to make the interface less complex. I remember these modifiers supported by the most common search engines were even discussed in magazines aimed at children here in the early 2000s! These days it's almost expert knowledge...
Re: Get better at Googling
#16What's often overlooked and omitted from this sort of guide is a person's ability to identify the trustworthiness and usefulness of a website that shows up in search results. It's not enough to juggle operands and search hacks. You also need to know which result to click.
Another commenter suggested just searching for your error message. Try searching for "cannot read property of undefined" and scroll through the results. There are dozens of dodgy domains like asdfsdf.cornelius714.site that are just scrapes of stackoverflow or other forums.
Re: Get better at Googling
#17It is googling in this generation, might be different for the next generation.
The core skill is to know how to acquire information and filter the noise from the signal.
Today yesterday it was the user manual, today its google, tomorrow its stackoverflow. And beyond that, who knows !
Re: Get better at Googling
#18The article is missing several operators that are useful. Like inurl:, intitle:, allintitle:, etc.
The "AROUND" proximity search is neat as well, especially for words with dual meaning. like:
bootstrap AROUND(6) cpu
Finds "bootstrap" within 6 words of "cpu", which culls out most (not all) of the unwanted results about the bootstrap js library.
This article seems to cover most of the ones I'm aware of: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
Edit: Changed around(6) to AROUND(6). Apparently the lowercase version doesn't work, as it's highlighting the word "around" in the results.
Re: Get better at Googling
#19Googling is important, and I hear it everywhere, but in my opinion "deep work", learning the basics, and focus is just as important.
You can't google yourself out of every situation. You must be willing to dive deep into a topic, read a lot, think and understand things well.
What googling often means is that you just open on the top 10 hits, scroll through, read two paragraphs, and if the solution is not immediately clear, you go to the next page...
Re: Get better at Googling
#20I'd suggest to change the editorialized submission title, as it predisposes people to share opinions that can easily be unrelated to the article's contents in question.