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Just realized I was wrong about searching with quotes for error codes
For 6 months I kept typing exact phrases like "ERR_CONNECTION_RESET" in quotes and got the same 4 useless forum posts from 2011. Then last Tuesday I tried minus signs to hide old PHP boards and suddenly found a Microsoft doc plus a Reddit thread from 2022 that actually solved it. Does anyone else have a go-to trick for filtering out decade old results when you're hunting down a specific error string?
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thomas8628d ago
Have you tried adding the current year or "after:2020" to your search? That trick changed everything for me when I was trying to find fixes for some weird Outlook sync error. Google and Bing both support the after: operator so you can cut out all that ancient junk in one shot. You can also stack it with site:reddit.com or site:stackoverflow.com to zero in on places where people actually post recent fixes.
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