[Techtalk] google searching

B Seeger seeger at prosensing.com
Wed Apr 15 14:58:03 UTC 2009


Note that it's 
http://www.google.com/codesearch

(w/o the trailing slash). 

Cool resource! 

-Bethany

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:48 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> writes:
> > Maria McKinley writes:
> >
> >> This is something that has been bugging me for a while. Google seems
> >> to ignore symbols and punctuation, stuff that is often critical for
> >> searching for coding info. Doesn't seem to matter if you put stuff in
> >> quotes or not
> >
> > I don't have a solution, only validation that you're not the only one
> > bugged by this. I hit it at least once every couple of days.  I
> > suppose google is omitting the punctuation marks entirely in their
> > databases, because they only get in the way of text searches ... but
> > it's very frustrating and makes a lot of technical searches
> > impossible.
> 
> In some (limited) cases Google Code Search is useful for this:
> 
>     http://www.google.com/codesearch/
> 
> Unfortunately that is limited to "within source code", which can
> sometimes be useful but often isn't for finding discussion about coding
> rather than examples thereof.
> 
> Regards,
>         Daniel
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