How-to-Google
Revision as of 15:58, 31 May 2019 by Christian-griebel-aab2@tu-darmstadt.de (talk | contribs)
General
- Keep the Google search as simple as possible only being specific where necessary
- Gradually add search terms, if you do not get good results
- Try to search with professional terms, instead of natural speaking language
- Only use important words, instead of full sentences
- Use descriptive words and simply rephrase searches, if no good results show up
- Use quotes around your search words
"search words", to tell Google to match exactly the text within quotes, asterisks*can be used as wildcards to match any text - Use hyphens
<ambiguous search> -<one matching field>to explicitly tell Google to exclude words from the search
Dealing with Error Messages
- Just copy the error message as it is from the command line to the Google search bar
- Remove system specific details like
- the hostname
- the system or cluster name
- user or account names
- Path names: remove (site-specific) path names (like /shared/apps/MyApplicationName/), but keep system file names (eg. /usr/lib64/lib...) and relative pathes inside the software (eg. lib/x86_64/lib...)
(for example:/shared/apps/myApplicationName/lib/x86_64/libSubModule.so>/code>)