{"id":1597,"date":"2011-07-26T16:35:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2011-07-26T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T15:38:01","slug":"stackoverfow-please-fix-your-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/26\/stackoverfow-please-fix-your-search-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"StackOverfow: PLEASE fix your search engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>StackOverflow.com has long had one of the worst search-engines I&#8217;ve ever seen. It&#8217;s clearly a simple thing hacked together. It generally doesn&#8217;t work, and most of the people I know use google isntead, and rely upon Google to collage all the stackoverflow results together.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, you have search terms where Google gives you lots of non-programming hits (e.g. &#8220;iphone video (something)&#8221;. So the above method fails, and you have to use the appalling SO search engine.<\/p>\n<p>Then you get this, because the search engine is so poor that it often ignores search-terms, so you have to creatively re-search and experiment to find the results you need:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-07-26-at-16.32.45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-07-26-at-16.32.45.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-07-26 at 16.32.45\" width=\"756\" height=\"162\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-07-26-at-16.32.45.png 756w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-07-26-at-16.32.45-150x32.png 150w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-07-26-at-16.32.45-300x64.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ARRGGGH!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StackOverflow.com has long had one of the worst search-engines I&#8217;ve ever seen. It&#8217;s clearly a simple thing hacked together. It generally doesn&#8217;t work, and most of the people I know use google isntead, and rely upon Google to collage all the stackoverflow results together. Occasionally, you have search terms where Google gives you lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}