Yes, and is in fact what I did - in fact, doxygen don't "link" was sufficient for me to establish that it wasn't going to find what I wanted. (Although I don't blame that on Google - looks like there is no way to persuade doxygen not to do the auto-linking.)
It's really annoying that Google removed the + syntax.
I'm afraid I'm about 6 years out of date when it comes to search engines; I did cover quite a few of them in my library degree, but the field has changed so much! I can't even remember which ones are powered by Google any more!
Someone give that man a coconut - that does indeed work. Thank you very much! (On what basis did you guess that? I couldn't find any vestige of hint in the doxygen docs.)
maybe I should start writing documentation
Speaking as a technical author, I encourage you not to bother - virtually no one reads the damn stuff, anyway!
Last time I looked, Bing seemed to do a fairly poor job of finding stuff. I'll give it another whirl.
Inspired by nalsa's Ask-related comments above, I've just discovered that Lycos still exists. Who knew? For my current favourite test string (franz harary tackey) it produces results considerably more shite than Google's. Oh, many of which are also produced by Bing (eg http://top-products-services.com/articles/babies.html, which seems to have a text box full of random words at the bottom, ensuring hits for almost anything).
Hmm, yes, the GreaseMonkey idea would be a step forward - but still wouldn't, I don't think, be as good as Google used to be (see comments about searching for 'franz harary "tackey"' above).
One of my colleagues did think there was a "just bloody look for it" button, but then couldn't find it. "I feel retro", perhaps :)
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This works because the engine doesn't seem to carry out substitutions within exact match strings.
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I'm afraid I'm about 6 years out of date when it comes to search engines; I did cover quite a few of them in my library degree, but the field has changed so much! I can't even remember which ones are powered by Google any more!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
I recognise only 5 of the general and metasearch engines listed there, and I'm sure I wrote about ones that don't exist any more.
I'm sure I had a point when I started this comment, but I seem to have misplaced it.
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maybe I should start writing documentation
Speaking as a technical author, I encourage you not to bother - virtually no one reads the damn stuff, anyway!
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*snort*
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Inspired by nalsa's Ask-related comments above, I've just discovered that Lycos still exists. Who knew? For my current favourite test string (franz harary tackey) it produces results considerably more shite than Google's. Oh, many of which are also produced by Bing (eg http://top-products-services.com/articles/babies.html, which seems to have a text box full of random words at the bottom, ensuring hits for almost anything).
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Although a GreaseMonkey script that automatically wrapped your search terms in double quotes would be a good start. And might exist already?
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One of my colleagues did think there was a "just bloody look for it" button, but then couldn't find it. "I feel retro", perhaps :)
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