Google Microsoft!

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Ever try searching support.microsoft.com or msdn.microsoft.com for something and not get what you want? I've usually ended up using Google to find kb articles or whatever, then getting a ton of non-MS related hits in the results.

Here is something I happened across today while reading Kent Sharkey's blog, a Microsoft-specify Google page: http://www.google.com/microsoft.html

Nice. In my Links toolbar now.

Mike

4 Comments

just add "dotnet" to any search phrase and tab over to "Groups" ... you'll get only newsgroup hits. this tip used along with their toolbar search control is awesome.

enter "dotnet marshalbyref" in the control and get all newsgroup hits.

MSDN search is a joke. The Q is... will be soon be paying for google access now that they are going public???

vinnie tripodi - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 3:04:00 PM
You could always just narrow the search results by appending site:microsoft.com to your search...

James Geurts - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 3:04:00 PM
prepending site:microsoft.com usually gives me better results than using the google.com/microsoft search engine.

Scott - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 3:17:00 PM
Get the google deskbar, you can make custom searches.

Googling "someClassName class" is pretty good for framework classes

AndrewSeven - Wednesday, February 25, 2004 4:27:00 PM

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