Using Google to Find the Best StackOverflow Result

5 points by kvanderd 12y ago ↗ HN

Google's search engine is better than SO. Here is how I search google to find the best results on SO:

#this limits the google search results just to the SO website

site:http://stackoverflow.com/

#searches for an exact match of a keyword

site:http://stackoverflow.com/ "nested forms rails"

#searches for synonymous words

site:http://stackoverflow.com/ *nested forms rails"

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Thanks! Simple stuff that some of us know, but I'm still not in the habit yet of using it. Great reminder!

I always just type stackoverflow.com and hit tab in the chrome address bar.

But tags. If I type in [android] in the stackoverflow search box, it gives me all questions tagged android. This doesn't work if I use google.