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bobbyi 2023-11-25 22:21:12 | [–] update item (on: A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '[' )

Searching for /bin/[ gets reasonable results for me

https://www.google.com/search?q=%2Fbin%2F%5B

sort by:

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VMG | karma 8688 | avg karma 3.0 | 2011-10-01 06:03:36 | [–] similar comments (on: Unofficial Google Image Search by Drawing (or Webcam) )

This seems to be the only one type of search that yields the expected results: http://goo.gl/HEgdG

Still interesting though

cJ0th | karma 1764 | avg karma 2.78 | 2017-06-27 13:06:00+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance )

Yeah, it seems "search" isn't as untouchable as it used to be. Qwant, for instance, may not be a 100% there but it is quite good.

https://www.qwant.com/

yekanchi | karma 15 | avg karma 1.36 | 2018-07-07 10:41:36 | [–] similar comments (on: Google Search Bug! )

Compare these search results results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=2*2

https://www.google.com/search?q=-2*2

https://www.google.com/search?q=-3*3

https://www.google.com/search?q=6*3

oktoberpaard | karma 119 | avg karma 2.2 | 2022-08-05 01:16:06 | [–] similar comments (on: We're improving search results when you use quotes )

Not always, though: https://www.blog.google/products/search/improvements-searchi....

wtetzner | karma 4883 | avg karma 1.99 | 2013-06-08 01:05:57+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Facts about Wayland vs X )

https://www.google.com/search?q=define:performantly is good enough for me.

prezjordan | karma 3527 | avg karma 3.05 | 2012-12-09 16:35:28+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: The End: NZBMatrix closes )

Binsearch [0] usually does the trick for me. Admittedly I'm not a hardcore user.

[0]: http://binsearch.info

pretz | karma 536 | avg karma 7.66 | 2010-01-13 16:05:12 | [–] similar comments (on: Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript )

Hmmm, the the are surprisingly searchable: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

hannofcart | karma 1476 | avg karma 4.42 | 2017-09-27 06:37:22 | [–] similar comments (on: Show HN: Moocha.io – A search engine for MOOCs )

Not sure the search algorithms are working as expected. Consider: https://ibb.co/iGQQPQ

zulln | karma 429 | avg karma 1.72 | 2019-01-26 18:48:44 | [–] similar comments (on: Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems )

All potential jokes around escaping Google aside, searching for it was easier than expected: https://www.google.com/search?q=e+os

siquick | karma 2258 | avg karma 2.47 | 2022-08-11 21:23:46 | [–] similar comments (on: My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google )

Brave Search has been a nice alternative over the last few months. Still has the !g option if you need but been working well for standard queries.

https://search.brave.com/

BCM43 | karma 2619 | avg karma 7.14 | 2012-10-17 14:56:54+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: The Pirate Bay in the cloud )

What do you mean? I get a lot of results.

http://thepiratebay.se/search/the%20matrix/0/99/0

Camillo | karma 3406 | avg karma 3.17 | 2021-06-04 19:37:40+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: “Tank Man” )

For comparison: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22tank+man%22&tbm=isch

DarkmSparks | karma 434 | avg karma 1.04 | 2023-07-25 09:17:15 | [–] similar comments (on: The Fall of Stack Overflow )

https://search.brave.com/

probably my new default search engine. Thnx

colesantiago | karma 3526 | avg karma 2.1 | 2022-01-04 09:37:54 | [–] similar comments (on: Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results? )

Or just use search.brave.com

No problems there.

Comparison [0]

[0] https://brave.com/search/

tyingq | karma 59102 | avg karma 3.47 | 2019-01-26 14:05:17+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems )

It is the first organic result if you search for '/e/': https://www.google.com/search?&q=%27%2Fe%2F%27

Granted, not how most people would search.

IncludeSecurity | karma 190 | avg karma 4.52 | 2020-08-08 02:29:30+00:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN )

Tried to find an article from earlier this week, no dice. https://hndex.org/?q=open%20source%20security https://hndex.org/?q=openssf

Great idea, I appreciate how fast it returns results! Just needs more more control over the search parameters and figuring out why articles like the example I posted above aren't working and you got yourself a nice HN search.

loginatnine | karma 153 | avg karma 2.51 | 2021-12-08 20:39:08 | [–] similar comments (on: Improving GitHub Code Search )

We're using https://searchcodeserver.com/ internally and it works quite good, it was miles ahead GH search. After today, I'll have to test GH again to reassert this statement.

trollied | karma 4517 | avg karma 4.93 | 2023-06-16 10:07:00 | [–] similar comments (on: Full Time )

The search engine: https://search.marginalia.nu/

ColinWright | karma 127421 | avg karma 8.1 | 2012-02-26 06:07:43 | [–] similar comments (on: Tell HN: HNSearch is broken )

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+H...

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=HNSearch+br...

EDIT:

It's working now. Interestingly, it returns no results for the search terms HNSearch and Broken. Google search returns lots of them.

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