If it’s an error message, I search the relevant piece of the error in quotes.
If it’s a question I know the keywords for, then I search those keywords, and if I get lots of stuff/wrong stuff I add extra keywords to narrow. Ex: “flesh autoignition temperature” or “rdna 2″
If it’s a general question that I don’t have keywords for, then I phrase my query as a pseudo human-readable question. For example, “how far can you fall before dying” or “was leather armor used in the middle ages”.
Sometimes I use the site: command. Most sites’ built-in search is pretty crappy and it’s easier to do it through google. The time range command also gets used a lot but I don’t know the text command off hand so I do it through the GUI.
Mine is different depending on the question.
If it’s an error message, I search the relevant piece of the error in quotes.
If it’s a question I know the keywords for, then I search those keywords, and if I get lots of stuff/wrong stuff I add extra keywords to narrow. Ex: “flesh autoignition temperature” or “rdna 2″
If it’s a general question that I don’t have keywords for, then I phrase my query as a pseudo human-readable question. For example, “how far can you fall before dying” or “was leather armor used in the middle ages”.
Sometimes I use the
site:command. Most sites’ built-in search is pretty crappy and it’s easier to do it through google. The time range command also gets used a lot but I don’t know the text command off hand so I do it through the GUI.