• @REdOG
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    341 year ago

    the search engine ignores -string

    WHAT? Why would they do that? WTF no wonder…

    • @gosling
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      791 year ago

      Hyphen (-) means you don’t want to see this word, while words surrounded by quotes (") means you want these phrases exactly.

      Most symbols are also ignored, which is great for an average user but terrible for programmers.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        Yeh, suddenly you need to know what the language calls the operator within the context you want to use it.
        At which point, you probably don’t need to Google the symbol!

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        It was a really dumb move but you can can still get the same effect by putting a word in quotation marks.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          UI-wise, though, it’s toxic, and therefore slower and more stressing. It’s something that can be fixed, and ergo essentially a bug. ;-)