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The 3-word search trick that finally found my grandma's lost recipe, but now I'm second-guessing it
Last week I was trying to find my grandma's old apple cake recipe and normal search was useless, so I tried adding "site:archive.org" plus just two keywords and boom, there it was on a scanned 1987 church cookbook page. I also learned from a Reddit post in r/DataHoarder that you can filter by exact file type with "filetype:pdf" and I pulled a 1962 city directory in like 30 seconds. But here's my debate: is this kind of advanced operator search making us worse at just browsing and letting our brains make connections? My buddy says no, it's just a tool and you still have to know what question to ask. I think there's a real trade-off because when I just typed "grandma apple cake" I found nothing, but when I used the operator I found it in one try. So which side are you on: does knowing the search tricks make you a better researcher, or does it just make you lazy? Would love to hear from folks who learned this stuff in the 2000s versus people using it now.
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