I don’t doubt the general accuracy of the preamble in “published by the mephitic garbage heap known as Al Jazeera,” but I do reject the mild implication that the “high prestige” MSM sites are materially better. Or in many cases better at all.
For the same reason that I think we agree Trump doing bad things out in the open is less worse than when leftists do the same things in the shadows,
Thank you for providing this list. I used to know the basics when I worked in libraries, but I’ve been retired for quite a while, and there is much that is new to me. I will enjoy trying some of these out.
Interesting! I usually use DuckDuckGo, but when I REALLY need something, Google is often more effective. I was experimenting the other day and found that DuckDuckGo does something that Google does not. On DuckDuckGo, the search term qr https://graboyes.substack.com will give you a QR code for Bastiat's Window. On GOogle, that command will offer you some third-party QR generators.
Thanks. I knew a lot of this already, but by no means all.
In other words, Boolean search logic, correctly used, is still the best way to get answers on the internet while wasting the least amount of time.
Useful. Much of this was new to me.
Quite a bit was new to me.
Great suggestions, and thanks much for the link.
I don’t doubt the general accuracy of the preamble in “published by the mephitic garbage heap known as Al Jazeera,” but I do reject the mild implication that the “high prestige” MSM sites are materially better. Or in many cases better at all.
For the same reason that I think we agree Trump doing bad things out in the open is less worse than when leftists do the same things in the shadows,
Thank you for providing this list. I used to know the basics when I worked in libraries, but I’ve been retired for quite a while, and there is much that is new to me. I will enjoy trying some of these out.
By the way quite a lot of this also applies if you are no longer using google as your search engine but are using, say, duck duck go
DDG has a page describing its syntax etc. here - https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax
I believe bing is similar but I don't use bing except to search for "how do I not use bing anymore"
Interesting! I usually use DuckDuckGo, but when I REALLY need something, Google is often more effective. I was experimenting the other day and found that DuckDuckGo does something that Google does not. On DuckDuckGo, the search term qr https://graboyes.substack.com will give you a QR code for Bastiat's Window. On GOogle, that command will offer you some third-party QR generators.
I did not know that and it may indeed be handy
Quotation marks often don't seem to be very effective in restricting searches to verbatim text. See this discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTechnology/comments/ubr7sl/does_google_verbatim_search_still_exist/
Agreed.