• REdOG@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    the search engine ignores -string

    WHAT? Why would they do that? WTF no wonder…

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      1 year ago

      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.