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I use Google Desktop as an application launcher. Sometimes Quick Search Box doesn't get keyboard focus.
Repro:
Start cmd.exe Press Ctrl Ctrl , Quick Search Box will appear. Type blah Observe: blah appears in cmd.exe
Expected: blah should appear in Quick...
Started by Pavel Chuchuva on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Restarting Google Desktop fixes the problem..
In version 5.9
Update: No, it still happens after some time .
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I am very glad when Google adds quick view to its search function . However, I found that not all of the PDFs, PPTs, Xls, Docs can be quick viewed. Any idea why this is so?
Started by Ngu Soon Hui on
, 3 posts
by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Google the script to view all the documents....
The PDF file is still waiting in some Google queue to be converted.
Two suppositions (replace below pdf by ppt/xls/doc as needed):
The Google pdf-to-html converter failed on this PDF file.
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I saw a google console app someone wrote a while back, but it was actually a website emulating a console...
What I'm after is a shortcut or linux terminal app which I canuse to quickly search google.
Ideally, it will show the top 10 search results with...
Started by Dean on
, 5 posts
by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Default browser to display the Google results page for those search terms:
google() { search="" echo "$1Here's a simple bash function that lets you type
google foo bar
and which will then open your" for term in $*; ....
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Google (search) is dying, says former Google SA head Google (search) is dying: former Google SA head
Former Google SA boss, Stafford Masie, says search query volumes are moving to social containers such as Facebook and Twitter
Started by rpm on
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by 14 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at za):
Its the Google generation on google....
It might be in decline Search more than ever, because its so easy to access on a variety of platforms.
But saying Google search is dying might be somewhat of a sweeping statement.
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Anyone sick of seeing questions on here that could be sorted with a quick google search? Too many questions have a simple answer 2 clicks away. Why fill here up with them?
Started by Les on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yahoo):
At times, yes it is annoying
probably these people are just to lazy to look for the information themselves
the ones that really annoy me, are when... .
Can't say I'm 'sick' of them but I do wonder why some people don't make a bit more of an effort themselves .
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Possible Duplicate:
Google hidden features or nice tips
Google search is now part of our life, however apart from simple search Google also supports various advanced search techniques by introducing various operators and search-tags.
Like '+' and '-'....
Started by s_ruchit on
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by 9 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
That google has indexed:
site:superuser.com "effective google search"
Google also works as a dictionary, but so many people do not know (and are surprised when you tell them) that you can search I pay for my webhosting....
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We are looking at writing a site using Lucene.Net to search our Subversion repository but before we do that has anybody else already tackled this problem? Something like google for our private source code would be great. Thanks
Started by Jeremy E on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
What you are looking for is a source code search software and there are many out on the Internet.
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I like to use Google to quickly locate API documentation. To get better results, I type some keywords that give desired results as top lines. For example:
JavaScript: MDC Array slice MDC String indexOf Ruby ruby doc Dir glob rubyonrails ActionMailer
What...
Started by alex2k8 on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
There are a lot of other nifty little Google in the search if I know where it's located:
Dir glob site:ruby-doc.org
Adding site: domain-name to the search to narrow down to....
search to get me directly to the class API page.
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Is there a way to get an MSDN search bar in Firefox which will autocomplete .Net class and member names (and preferably also Win32 API methods) and take me directly to the MSDN page?
Google toolbar with Shift+Enter (I'm feeling lucky) will usually go ...
Started by SLaks on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I ended up editing this search plugin from Shog9's answer and changing the search URL to Google's I'm Feeling LuckyThere are several....
Msdn.microsoft.com url will restrict Google search to the msdn.microsoft.com site.
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I'm looking to tokenize a search query similar to how Google does it. For instance, if I have the following search query:
the quick "brown fox" jumps over the "lazy dog"
I would like to have a string array with the following tokens:
the quick brown fox...
Started by jamesaharvey on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
String word = "" // empty word bool in_quotes = false for char c in search string: if in_quotes: if c example of its usage:
string data = "the quick \"brown fox\" jumps over the \"lazy dog\""; string extened to include your "-" requirement....
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