Nautilus acting up

[rikona]

Hello Ralf,

Thursday, December 8, 2016, 5:59:01 AM, Ralf 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

Start page is my default search engine, and is always used in
"advanced search" mode - it is set to come up that way. I'm not a
Google fan.

> As Liam already pointed out, the most important you need to know, is
> that strings, IOW words between quotation marks are one search term.

<snip>

I'm reasonably familiar with setting up search strings. I use all the
things you describe plus others such as "OR", -something to eliminate
something from the search, ~something to invoke synonyms [used rarely,
since it often produces way too many results :-) ], and * to include
an extra/unknown word in a specific search phrase [but not used that
much by me].

The thing that I'm missing is the extensive knowledge and experience
about computers, and Ubuntu in particular, that will let you or Liam,
or others on this list, select a very good set of words even in your
initial search phrase. As I mentioned in my email response to him, the
words that Liam used in his examples were essentially unknown to me
initially. Only after some searching and learning did I become
familiar enough with these words, and was then able to use them in
more accurate searches.

I do a fair amount of searching in noncomputer topics, and some
extremely targeted searches in areas where I have extensive knowledge
and experience. In these areas I too can choose very accurate words
for my initial search. Many people have probably never even heard
these words before, don't know them, and would be highly unlikely to
use them in any initial search.

> Good sources often are links to "stackoverflow" or "wiki.archlinux" and
> a few others.

I agree. I have only recently been using the arch Linux pages, and I
do find them to be very complete, reasonably understandable [to a
lowly user like me :-) ], and overall well done.

> 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
> information.

> To google search terms you could add

>   de
>   com
>   en
>   org

Unfortunately, I don't speak several languages so that limits me. But,
some foreign websites have an English alternative that I can use.
These have been particularly useful in my medical/bio searching
because a great deal of very good work has been done outside the US in
these fields. 

I appreciate your help. Thanks!     

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 rikona