Nautilus acting up
Ralf Mardorf
silver.bullet at zoho.com
Thu Dec 8 14:04:20 UTC 2016
On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 14:59:01 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>First of all, use Google, even if you hate Google, since it provides
>
>1. The best hits, especially to those who are inexperienced.
>2. It provides samples, while you are typing.
> Startpage provides the same good results as Google, but without
> providing samples while you are typing
>
>On the right bottom corner of Google's search engine, there's a
>settings menu. It provides an "Advanced search" and "Search Help".
>
>Search operators: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433
>
>As Liam already pointed out, the most important you need to know, is
>that strings, IOW words between quotation marks are one search term.
>
>If you search for
>
> a b c
>
>you'll get sites with a and/or b and/or c, if you use
>
> "a b c"
>
>instead, you get more or less just sites including exactly "a b c",
>putting a single word in quotes isn't required, it's already a string
>without quotation marks. I usually use nothing else but quotes.
>
>Learn and become smarter. IOW don't search for
>
> jackd
>
>if you want to know about Linux's jackd, instead search for
>
> linux jackd
>
>in the past Google provided a special Linux search engine, but they
>seemingly dropped it. OTOH the search results don't became less good.
>
>If you are not a Linux power user, even skim hits that don't fit to
>what you wanted to get, they might help you to find better keywords.
>
>Good sources often are links to "stackoverflow" or "wiki.archlinux" and
>a few others. If you should speak several languages, it might be that
>"https://wiki.ubuntu.com/foo" doesn't answer your question, but
>"https://wiki.ubuntuusers.SOME_COUNTRY/foo" might provide better
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Oops, perhaps just available for "de" :D. However, if you e.g. search
wiki ubuntu fr
you'll get fr sites :).
>information.
>
>To google search terms you could add
>
> de
> com
> en
> org
>
>etc.
>
>This is just about research in regards to Linux. Google might censor,
>so for some domains, you should use different search engines. It might
>differ for different countries.
>
>Regards,
>Ralf
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