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Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

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[โ€“] gosling 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yeh, suddenly you need to know what the language calls the operator within the context you want to use it.
At which point, you probably don't need to Google the symbol!