How-to-Google
Revision as of 17:12, 17 April 2018 by Christian-wassermann-e30b@rwth-aachen.de (talk | contribs)
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.
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
"<search>"to tell Google to use exact matching for 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 from the command line to the Google search bar
- Remove system specific details like the system name or paths
- Though you should keep the file name, if it corresponds to a provided or system source code file