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Google's custom search engines make locating information on the web a lot easier; this was reminded to me this morning as I spoke with folks from Macrobug and Quickoffice about how they use documentation, and it seems Google searches are a common way to learn first principles of a given topic (e.g. google for 'SMS send S60 3rd"). Having a targeted search engine should create even more accureate results.
I've only found two so far, but only from a lack of looking. If you know of others, please post and I'll add it to the list to create a more complete reference.
www.mobiledevsearch.com
www.symbiansearch.com
A cool feature of Symbian Search (and Google Co-op searches if the feature is enabled) is the ability to contribute to the engine. Hopefully this will lead to more relevant results.
Also, this brings me to a question -- Does anyone have experiences of not being able to find Forum Nokia content correctly?
(Thanks to Maximiliano on Forum Nokia for the link).
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Another cool feature is to use Copernic desktop search which is free
you can set it up to index all the .rh, .rsg, .hrh, .mmp etc files in addition to the normal source files, so just typing in a word will normally yield where it is used and in what application and context.
This is very useful if you have the devkits, examples and the emcc source files on your machine as well.
p.s. I logged two posts on the documentation forum about missing files that seem have gone AWOL on the Nokia site.
Posted by: Paul Todd | October 30, 2006 12:55 PMFor me, desktop search has changed the way I work. I never search in folders anymore -- just fire up X1 (http://www.x1.com), type in a search term and the incremental find filters files until there's only the relevant ones left. I absolutely love the ease and convenience, and I've tried to find a way that these tools could be integrated into our tools. The end result was that we simply have higher priorities that we need to focus on.
But still... In terms of finding files, there's no quicker way. X1 sells an enterprise license -- I wonder what enterprise-wide source code search (as you type) would do to the working practices of a developer?
Posted by: Markus Ahonen | October 31, 2006 07:31 AM