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Re: More effective searching

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: More effective searching
Date 2025-06-30 16:00 +0200
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On 6/30/25 5:59 AM, Jan Claeys wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-06-24 at 07:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> Side Issue -- Google and DuckDuckGo seem more interested in quantity
>> rather than quality. Any pointers to search engine with friendly
>> Boolean search? TIA
> 
> "You" "can" "try" "putting" "double" "quotes" "around" "every" "word"
> AND "word group"

I had discovered that some time ago finding it more predictable than 
attempting to use capitalized AND in it's Boolean sense.

> OR -use -dashes -to -exclude

Didn't know that. Thanks.

> 
> https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-tips-use-google-search-efficiently.html
> https://www.lifewire.com/bing-advanced-search-3482817
> 

Interesting links. Will experiment to see how well they match with how 
well they match with my goals for using  DuckDuckGo.
I rigorously avoid *ANYTHING* Google related whenever physically possible.

> ... might also be useful (DDG is based on Bing)
> 
> 

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