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Huh, you know, you're right. I recently did that and it was fine.

I think a lot of others formed their opinion (myself muchly included) about this from sites where the search bar was a joke played on people.

Edit: let me upgrade that 'fine' to 'great', now that I think about it it was actually better than a google search which was not my previous experience.

Or, if DuckDuckGo is your default search engine, you can append ' !so' to your search term.

Because it's not just SO I want answers from. It's blogs people post, social media such as Reddit, HN, etc.

I've found some fantastic articles out there, yes SO is a fantastic resource but there is an entire internet out there :-)

Google index used to be fairly more competent at finding relevant issues for a query, especially if some words were synonyms of what found in the snippets at even loosely related