[Surfactant7]

There's a simple way around that. Nothing to install. Nothing to update.

Just go to SO and use its search bar. It's actually quite good.

I mean, you know that's where you'll want to find the answer anyway - not some random corporate webpage or ad-infested splog. Why not cut out the middle man?

Only if that fails do I bother with Google.

[burnished]

Huh, you know, you're right. I recently did that and it was fine.

I think a lot of others formed their opinion (myself muchly included) about this from sites where the search bar was a joke played on people.

Edit: let me upgrade that 'fine' to 'great', now that I think about it it was actually better than a google search which was not my previous experience.

[watchdogtimer]

Or, if DuckDuckGo is your default search engine, you can append ' !so' to your search term.

[thejosh]

Because it's not just SO I want answers from. It's blogs people post, social media such as Reddit, HN, etc.

I've found some fantastic articles out there, yes SO is a fantastic resource but there is an entire internet out there :-)

[avereveard]

Google index used to be fairly more competent at finding relevant issues for a query, especially if some words were synonyms of what found in the snippets at even loosely related