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susan350
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2d ago
Tried searching by exact phrase in Google, then tried it in Bing, and the difference was night and day for finding an old forum post
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stellat87
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4d ago
Am I the only one who thinks the library archive trick is better than any search engine?
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the_joseph
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4d ago
My search results for 'cabin rentals' in Asheville flipped completely after I added one tiny word
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iris441
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4d ago
Paid a $30 'lifetime' fee for a forum archive, and the whole thing was scraped from a free wiki that still works today
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leor37
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5d ago
Rant: my saved search on Facebook Marketplace died and I'm torn on whether I should've used an alert tool instead
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grayt46
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6d ago
Update: I stopped trusting exact phrase search after a client call went sideways in Boise
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olivias88
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7d ago
DAE get better web results by searching the exact phrase someone said, in quotes?
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maxp68
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8d ago
Asked a librarian in Spokane for help with old census records and she pulled up something I never would have tried
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parkerb75
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12d ago
Unpopular opinion: my 68 year old uncle in Spokane types better searches than any "search hack" post here
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christopher_singh92
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13d ago
Rant: spent 6 hours hunting for a 1997 city council vote and finally found it buried in a scanned PDF with no OCR
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spencerw72
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14d ago
Rant: A mod deleted my post for having a "junk" search string, and honestly it made my finds way better
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the_spencer
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15d ago
Guy at a library sale in Cleveland said he finds better stuff by searching the ISBN than the title, and now I feel dumb
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coleman.christopher
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17d ago
Rant: my nephew said 'just use the search bar' and I had to explain why that fails for old forum posts
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susan350
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19d ago
Why does nobody warn you that paid search tools can't see the deep web?
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barbararamirez
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20d ago
Got stuck in the Boston Public Library map room and now I search everything by region first
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