[machbio]

So much this - you have to go from least popular to most popular terms to get accurate results - there is a weightage penalty of how further the word is from the start of the query.

if you search "Javascript issues Rshiny" (this is just an example not the actual query) - you only get javascript results for 4 to 5 pages of results.. when you reverse it to "Rshiny Javascript issues" - the results are better

[dsl]

I have found as of late that using natural language search terms works much better over the old keyword soup you'd have to feed in to AltaVista or something.

i.e. "how do I change a ford taurus headlight" vs "taurus service manual headlight"

[frandroid]

This is really useful advice, thank you.