What useful AdvancedSearch tricks do you know?
from sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 29 Nov 2025 00:44
https://sopuli.xyz/post/37396320

i’ll open with a classic:

filetype:pdf *title of file or article*

Replace pdf with other file extensions

*Btw, Does the +sign next to a search term have any added effect to simply providing that keyword? If I want all the keywords I’ve boiled the search down to, should I not put a + sign next to each and every keyword to make it clear I need all the terms to co-occur? Or wouldnt “it” infer that I want to see all three together in some manner or I would have used ANDs, ORs, and the like?

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scytale@piefed.zip on 29 Nov 2025 05:35 next collapse

Might be useful for some, but there are ways to search for openly accessible camera streams. Stuff like: https://netlas.io/blog/find_online_cameras/

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 29 Nov 2025 21:40 collapse

What are online cameras that are publicly accessible in such a way?

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 29 Nov 2025 08:07 next collapse

Hasn’t google broken most of those tricks over the past decade and SEO ruined the rest of them?

FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io on 29 Nov 2025 17:50 next collapse

Some still definitely work, but don't forget there are other search engines like Kagi. DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc.

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 29 Nov 2025 21:32 collapse

Can’t speak to Google as a search engine any which way cuz I avoid them like the plague, same with Bing

It generally works with DuckDuckGo

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 30 Nov 2025 13:24 collapse

My secret weapon is asking one of the grandkids.

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 30 Nov 2025 19:20 collapse

Ok, whats one you’ve learned from them? I wonder how truly techy kids are since the big companies are trying to extinct the concept of “owning” and managing ones files and abstracting everything away so you dont know what on your machine and where