Tech Support Search choices

[EddieJennings]

@pmoncho said in Tech Support Search choices:

I know I am not alone but was wondering how many here will search Mango/ServerXXX/ before Google?

Has anyone created a search on a personal site that will search all specific forums at once?

It's strange. I tend to head to Dr. Google for work-related tech problems, and ML for my own stuff.

[pmoncho]

@EddieJennings said in Tech Support Search choices:

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Interesting. I will normally hit Google if it is a general subject but here if it is specific.

[IRJ]

Duckduckgo > Google

[scottalanmiller]

@IRJ said in Tech Support Search choices:

Duckduckgo > Google

I do the same.

[bnrstnr]

I use duckduckgo also. If it's something I know ML people use or talk about I'll usually run a site:mangolassi.it search terms otherwise I just search it normally on duckduckgo

You can also do site:mangolassi.it site:serverblah.com site:spicewhatevs.com search terms to search multiple sites at once

I still don't trust the nodebb searching for whatever reason... probably irrational

[scottalanmiller]

@bnrstnr said in Tech Support Search choices:

I use duckduckgo also. If it's something I know ML people use or talk about I'll usually run a site:mangolassi.it search terms otherwise I just search it normally on duckduckg

Yeah, that works well.

[travisdh1]

@bnrstnr said in Tech Support Search choices:

I use duckduckgo also. If it's something I know ML people use or talk about I'll usually run a site:mangolassi.it search terms otherwise I just search it normally on duckduckgo

You can also do site:mangolassi.it site:serverblah.com site:spicewhatevs.com search terms to search multiple sites at once

I still don't trust the nodebb searching for whatever reason... probably irrational

This is what I always do as well. Haven't tried the newest search functionality.

[JasGot]

@bnrstnr said in Tech Support Search choices:

I use duckduckgo also. If it's something I know ML people use or talk about I'll usually run a site:mangolassi.it search terms otherwise I just search it normally on duckduckgo

You can also do site:mangolassi.it site:serverblah.com site:spicewhatevs.com search terms to search multiple sites at once

I still don't trust the nodebb searching for whatever reason... probably irrational

We have an internal app with a search box, in addition to some added site: options we also append this to EVERY search:
-brothersoft-com -softwarepatch-com -softpedia-com -topshareware-com -freewarefiles-com -fanhow.com -tutcity.com
it cleans up the results pretty well.

[pmoncho]

@JasGot said in Tech Support Search choices:

@bnrstnr said in Tech Support Search choices:

I use duckduckgo also. If it's something I know ML people use or talk about I'll usually run a site:mangolassi.it search terms otherwise I just search it normally on duckduckgo

You can also do site:mangolassi.it site:serverblah.com site:spicewhatevs.com search terms to search multiple sites at once

I still don't trust the nodebb searching for whatever reason... probably irrational

We have an internal app with a search box, in addition to some added site: options we also append this to EVERY search:
-brothersoft-com -softwarepatch-com -softpedia-com -topshareware-com -freewarefiles-com -fanhow.com -tutcity.com
it cleans up the results pretty well.

That is pretty sweet. Always looking for ways to clear up search results.

Glad I started this thread.

[JasGot]

@pmoncho said in Tech Support Search choices:

That is pretty sweet. Always looking for ways to clear up search results.
Glad I started this thread.

I should mention, that because it's a regular HTML input box on our internal app, appending all those ignores is automated. We dont have to type it.