51–60 of 86 posts
You can use two numbers separated by two dots to represent all numbers in the range.
For example, a search for
taki 100..200
This is useful when you can't remember an exact year or number.
my problem is some operators just dont work any more, either on purpose or because of crappy quality control. for example, you used to be able to do: allintitle:Neil Diamond If You Go Away on YouTube, and get exactly what you would think, results with all those words in the title. but now, you dont: https://youtube.com/results?search_query=allintitle:Neil+Dia... now, I get crap like this: Neil Diamond & Shirley Basse…
The one not working has a space after the colon. It's even in the section taking about this :)
For complement I would recommend Russian yandex, and vk.com (russian facebook). It is like snapshot of internet from 2018, before everything was hit by massive censorship. It has some very niche communities that are no longer on internet. For example Ancient Egypt history, western net is filled with alien theories, Russians are doing experimental archaeology. Also repair, electronics... Also Telegram is like second i…
If I had my way, I would introduce internet search techniques as a core module in all university programs. Too often I see in my students work evidence of lazy searching. It is as if they expect Google to be able to read their minds or even foresee their future intentions. Lack of variety of search terms is a key shortcoming. Also, lack of exploration of terms which are tangentially related to their search topic. An…
I think there is / was an official standard or name, I can't remember it though. It never worked with Google really, but it worked on the search engines for our university and other academic sites.
+1 for his tip of "Search The Internet Archive". The other day I searched for the Tom & Jerry full episodes on the web to no avail (streaming platforms and video platforms like youtube only have rubbish cuts). The internet archive has every episode starting from the first one in 1940, in an easily accessible player without any ads or recommendations: https://archive.org/details/tom-and-jerry-all-114-episodes
Something I'd love to learn to do better is search WBM. I use WBM only a couple of times per month, but when I need it it's the only tool that can do the job and is therefore very valuable. Trouble is, I don't really know how to search it unless I have a record of the exact URL I want, which isn't always possible.
my problem is some operators just dont work any more, either on purpose or because of crappy quality control. for example, you used to be able to do: allintitle:Neil Diamond If You Go Away on YouTube, and get exactly what you would think, results with all those words in the title. but now, you dont: https://youtube.com/results?search_query=allintitle:Neil+Dia... now, I get crap like this: Neil Diamond & Shirley Basse…
> did I just have a stroke? those two searches are exactly the same. I just had the exact same though while reading the page.
Makes me a firm believer companies should have their documentation on GitHub (or similar) so anyone can make a PR to tidy these things up.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has anyone else experienced DuckDuckGo ignoring the exclusion operator? For example, searching `kiwi -fruit`, with no space between the hyphen and second word, used to bring up results that did not include the word "fruit". This no longer seems to be the case.
Someone needs to build a meta search engine…
Gwern is the person I'd become if I could properly monetize my ADHD and rabbit hole seeking behavior. I absolutely love his website and everything he publishes, and I am always delighted to look over his new stuff. Wish there are more people like him to read from.
His website is the best designed website I have genuinely ever visited, so fast, easy to navigate and very little blank space which makes it information dense. I also love the inline link opening, I definitely will be implementing that when I make my own website in the future.
The forced R and L margins suck for people with oldster eyes who have to increase the text size.
Kids these days!
I have found a few obscure publications at the [Defense Technical Information Center](https://discover.dtic.mil).