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LeahAtWork wrote: I find for most technical/code searches
True, that's mostly what I search for generally (which is why ads annoy me to no end but that's another story).
Yet it used to be that searching for some API documentation yielded better results on Google than on Bing (or MS's own API page). I can't say what it's like these days on Google, it's been so long I've explicitly gone there to search for anything...
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I find the opposite.
Google is better than Bing, well for some searches anyway.
Neither of them are really any good in general anymore these days though, that I do agree.
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Me not either. But this may differ locally. (Germany)
Getting W3Schools, geeksforgeeks and plenty of other dev stuff no army stuff luckily.
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That's what happen when getting money from sponsors is more important than giving quality results for the users.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Yeah, $74 billion in revenue is nothing in the eyes of greed. Must sacrifice the quality we've had till now!
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Didn't you know that greed is an exponential relationship to the amount of what you have?
Once managers get used to that level of life, they need the next step, and hence the next bonus or record revenue.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I just tried that and the first result was
7 ways to convert a String to Number in JavaScript
1. Using parseInt() parseInt() parses a string and returns a whole number. ...
2. Using Number() Number() can be used to convert JavaScript variables to numbers. ...
3. Using Unary Operator (+) ...
4. Using parseFloat() ...
5. Using Math.floor() ...
6. Multiply with number. ...
7. Double tilde (~~) Operator.
All the rest were links to answers posted at other dev sites for that exact question.
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Your response has illuminated one thing: Google has totally screwed over Verbatim search. Before, it was far better than non-verbatim. I had Verbatim enabled, and when I disabled it I got the same thing as you.
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That's a new one on me, how do you set it?
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After going to google.com and entering your search, after the results show up, click on the 'Tools' button under the ~header, or whatever you want to call it. Then change 'All results' to 'Verbatim'. Then you will probably get my crappy results.
I had an extension that automatically changed everything to a verbatim search, but it looks like I'll have to remove that one now.
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Well that certainly skews the results, and not in a good way. Glad I didn't know about it.
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Yeah. Before three to six months ago or so, Verbatim consistently gave me far better results than a normal search. I was a power user, and could narrow things down with great specificity. I haven't been able to do that lately.
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I could not replicate your situation in OP.
All results were relative and accurate.
Not signed into Chrome or Google, etc.
I did not see any link to the White House in the first 3 pages for results.
Interesting.
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David O'Neil wrote: Google is starting to really f***ing suck! Look at the bright side, at least they're biased and controlling the info they think you're not allowed to see.
Jeremy Falcon
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Agree with you - google's search results have radically changed in the last year (my perception). Far more attitude with little or no information. You might have to go to page 2 or 3 to see actual technical data.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Google seems to look at your search history and develops a "primary interest" for future searches. If you spend a lot of searches looking for stuff related to your language of choice, .NET, javascript, and a bunch of other code topics, it should, over time, start preferring those results over others.
However, if you start mixing a bunch of other searches into your history, the code results can start to get muddled as Google no longer knows what your primary interest is, or it's moving away from code. I run into that a lot as I do lots of media and political fact checking.
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Just wait until Google's Topics, their proposed replacement for cookies, comes into effect...
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That's going to be "fun" for sure...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Given everyone is now trying their best to block third-party cookies these days, obviously Google pretends they're useless and want everyone to use the tracking method they are proposing instead. Which obviously will only exist to benefit them.
Give it enough time, then people find reasons to block it too. Then they'll come up with yet another alternative...lather, rinse, repeat.
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To return results that must include a word or phrase, wrap that word in quotation marks in the search request:
"javascript" force to a number
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Ask the duck... duckduckgo.com
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In my searches I found that Google presented far more relevant results than DuckDuckGo or Bing. Maybe now that has changed.
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I bailed on google search years ago, it's been Duckduckgo for me ever since (every now an then I'll use dogpile.com).
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Rather than get a new laptop, I decided to get a desktop and keep my current laptop as a backup. It's still beefy enough to run dual displays at 4k with the external monitor running at 144Hz, so it's a good backup.
And since this is the Internet, I have to preface this by saying, yes I know building a desktop myself will save a few hundred bucks. Back when I was a kid, I valued the learning and saving money. These days I value my time so I can get back to making money and watching TV. So, paying a tiny premium for someone else to do the leg work is fine by me. With that out the way...
Anyone use NZXT? I just ordered a desktop from them, and I'll admit I'm always slightly worried when not getting to see a build in person first. But, from the Googling I haven't heard anything bad about them, save for they used to have airflow issues with their cases. That's supposed to be fixed now though.
Side note, I won't be doing much gaming on it. But, I do buy gaming computers because they tend to be the most beefy.
Jeremy Falcon
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