How do I search stack overflow?
How do I search?
- To search within specific tag(s), enter them in square brackets: [maintenance] seat searches for mentions of “seat” within the [maintenance] tag.
- To find a specific phrase, enter it in quotes: “flat tire” .
- To limit your search to just the title of a question, use title: followed by the search term.
How to find answer in StackOverflow?
You can use the advanced search to find answered questions. Your best bet is to click on a tag. It will give you the highest-voted questions in that tag, in descending order. Most of these are already answered.
How to search users on Stack Overflow?
To begin with, a user needs to enter the search term in the search box that appears in the center-left of the list at the top of each page and press Enter (www.stackoverflow.com). On a small screen, he may first need to enable the search button magnifying glass icon to show the text box.
What is a stackoverflow search?
Stack Overflow is a question and answer website for professional and enthusiast programmers. It is the flagship site of the Stack Exchange Network, created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. It features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming.
Why do Google search results have to be up to date?
These will be used to process crawler results, crudely. The handy thing about search is that there’s no need to have either strongly consistent results or completely up-to-date data, so Google are not prevented from responding to a query because a more up-to-date search result has become available.
How does Google serve results so fast Stack Overflow?
Even with a single disk I/O somewhere the latency of the disk seek prevents such a performance. Googles Map/Reduce, GFS are great tools for background processing, but they have nothing to do with the frontend performance. Map and Reduce + huge distributed datacenter.
How is Google able to search so fast?
Let me explain. Bioinformatics early on had the challenge to search small texts in gigantic strings very fast. For us, the “gigantic string” is of course DNA. Often not a single DNA but a database of several DNAs from different species/individuals. The small texts are proteins or their genetic counterpart, a gene.
How many servers does Google use for search?
This implies thousands of servers, each replicating one of many shards. Therefore the critical path for search is unlikely to hit any of their flagship distributed systems technologies GFS, MapReduce or BigTable. These will be used to process crawler results, crudely.