[Interest] Dealing with Qt 4.x docs in Google searches (Was: "What don't you like about Qt?")

[Carel Combrink]

Using https://duckduckgo.com as my search engine helps a lot along with
their bangs <https://duckduckgo.com/bang>.

The !qt bang normally opens the search in the Qt 5 docs, for example
searching for `!qt QString <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!qt+QString>` opens
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/search-results.html?q=QString

Most of the times I use the normal ! bang with the Qt version specified to
directly open a page that I am interested in. Thus a search for `! qt 5
QString <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!+qt+5+QString>` opens
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/QString.html

Another example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!+qt+5+qgraphicsitem

Perhaps this might be useful for someone else.

Regards,


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Giuseppe D'Angelo <
giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com> wrote:

> Il 18/09/2016 12:02, Elvis Stansvik ha scritto:
> >>> >> It lets you filter Google searches such that only your specified
> >>> >> version of Qt is shown.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Nice, I use Firefox but that's a good thing to share :)
> >> > I just tried : QObject, QString, QList point to Qt 5.7 first, but for
> >> > instance QGraphicsItem points to 4.8, then 4.7, and I don't even see
> 5.x in
> >> > the first page (while there is some weird russian clone of the 4.3
> version).
> >> >
> >> > But that's really a minor gripe :)
> > I've gotten used to throwing on a "5" in my Google searches :) E.g.
> > "qsplitter 5", "qgraphicsitem 5" et.c. That seems to do the trick most
> > of the time, but I agree that the 4.x docs is a little annoying.
>
> FYI:
>
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTWEBSITE-721
>
> Cheers,
>
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