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I used to try, when I needed something, and then give up after a few variations and just post a new question.
Somebody would immediately respond with a link to an earlier thread.
I'd say "How did you find that? I tried XXXXXXX, YYYYYY, ZZZZZZZ and came up empty".
They'd reply with a Google search that worked just fine.
Eventually, I caught on.
It's not so much that it failed to find a given string. It would find 1100 hits and didn't have a good way to refine the search.
Google.... just worked. Still does.
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From: Milan DavidoviÄ [mailto:milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com]
Sent: February-19-14 3:08 PM
To: McLauchlan, Kevin
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: ghost town
Got any example searches for us to try out?
--Milan DavidoviÄ
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:51 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> Anyone who finds useful info in those forums (and there's a lot of really good user-to-user assistance to be found) does it via external Google search.
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