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0 pointsl722y ago0 comments

How often do you use a general search engine and what are you searching for?

For me, if it is related to my job, I am usually going straight to the docs, language forums, and sometimes stack overflow. It's only if I am looking up a specific error that I do a general search (although that is getting harder and harder as more words are ignored).

Personally, I rarely search. Music related? Straight to Metal Archives. Tv/Movie related? straight to tmdb.org. General Reference? Wikipedia. Stats/Facts? WolframAlpha.

I'd say I use a general search engine only a few times a week total.

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jackvalentine2y ago· 3 in thread

Having been trialing Kagi for the last couple of months I do about 600-900 searches a month.

l72OP2y ago

What are some examples of searches that you do? I guess I am just surprised at how often people search using a general search engine.

jackvalentine2y ago

Reading back the last few:

- dutch baby pancake - dave hughes - albert park sailing lessons - <nameredacted> paediatrician - LNC patient cables pinout - 23FBQ connector masimo - state’s powers australian constitution - digital ID ACCC - Woman dies due to bushfire smoke canberra - <local council area> babytime library - bellroy - what does ammonia smell like - herschel infrared heater home assistant

slipperlobster2y ago

Not OC, but I burn through searches trying to chase down stacktrace errors. We're going through a big upgrade off of JDK8, so there's a lot of random queries.

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