Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow
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the search engine ignores -string
WHAT? Why would they do that? WTF no wonder…
83 points
Hyphen (-) means you don’t want to see this word, while words surrounded by quotes (") means you want these phrases exactly.
Most symbols are also ignored, which is great for an average user but terrible for programmers.
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7 points
I’m still pissed over removing +words. Like, G+ is gone, guys, so revert that mess.
3 points
It was a really dumb move but you can can still get the same effect by putting a word in quotation marks.
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