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fionak63
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just now
I called those site:search tricks on Reddit a waste of time, then a 1998 review page showed up
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noah_palmer42
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10h ago
I used to dig through old message boards by hand, now I just paste a URL into the Wayback Machine CDX API
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anthony_lane55
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16h ago
Just realized that $40 I dropped on a library card at the University of Michigan was the best search money I ever parted with
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the_amy
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19h ago
Hot take: I searched exact phrases in quotes for 6 years before a librarian in Des Moines told me that was killing my results
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michael880
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1d ago
Cost me 3 days to find a city ordinance from 1961 that Google swore didn't exist
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reese550
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5d ago
I typed a UPS tracking number into Google instead of the actual site and it pulled up a 6 year old forum post about the same package
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susan350
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8d ago
Tried searching by exact phrase in Google, then tried it in Bing, and the difference was night and day for finding an old forum post
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stellat87
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9d ago
Am I the only one who thinks the library archive trick is better than any search engine?
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the_joseph
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9d ago
My search results for 'cabin rentals' in Asheville flipped completely after I added one tiny word
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iris441
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9d ago
Paid a $30 'lifetime' fee for a forum archive, and the whole thing was scraped from a free wiki that still works today
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leor37
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10d ago
Rant: my saved search on Facebook Marketplace died and I'm torn on whether I should've used an alert tool instead
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grayt46
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11d ago
Update: I stopped trusting exact phrase search after a client call went sideways in Boise
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olivias88
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12d ago
DAE get better web results by searching the exact phrase someone said, in quotes?
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maxp68
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13d ago
Asked a librarian in Spokane for help with old census records and she pulled up something I never would have tried
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parkerb75
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17d ago
Unpopular opinion: my 68 year old uncle in Spokane types better searches than any "search hack" post here
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