Search strategies

Reading Jon Udell's latest post, it surprised me that more people aren't using quoted search (searching for a mix of words and/or specific and complete phrases/specific characters like this search : error "abort, retry, ignore").

I use this search strategy constantly, especially when searching for others who might have hit the same error message I'm currently getting stumped by.

I suspect if we'd look at google's search data, quoted strings would come up quite frequently.

If you haven't tried quoted search strings, think about giving it a try when you're not having success with just words.

Linux Journal Archives

Linux Journal has kindly put up an archive with the full text of older articles, including some of mine from the first issue (1994) through the late 90s. If you have any trouble accessing these, let me know.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/user/800408/track