Weak rant: Microsoft site search is *terrible*

[DaveSimmons]

I needed to look up the wide-character version of strcpy_s since I rarely use it and can't remember whether it's wstrcpy, wcscpy, wcstrcpy or tschlgpfnyglop_s.

msdn.microsoft.com > search dev center > strcpy_s
- StrCpy -- not strcpy, the PTSTR version and with no link to the safe versions
- StrCat -- ""
- GetTcpTable function
... 17 other useless results

> C++ strcpy_s
... same

> C++ "strcpy_s"
... same


Google: strcpy_s
- strcpy_s, wcscpy_s, _mbscpy_s - MSDN - Microsoft -- first result, exactly what I wanted.


Sigh. No wonder Bing is a joke,

 

[Merad]

I don't disagree, I just recommend http://en.cppreference.com/w/

 

[mxnerd]

Found this years ago that you have high probability that you couldn't find MS stuff on Microsoft's own websites.

Microsoft's search engine sucks.

Just use Google.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Found this years ago that you have high probability that you couldn't find MS stuff on Microsoft's own websites.

Microsoft's search engine sucks.

Just use Google.

I guess I'm like Charlie Brown with the football -- once a year I need to learn the lesson over again: never trust Lucy Microsoft's search engine.

 

[LevelSea]

I think MS is moving away from MSDN for documentation. New location is https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/

Searching for strcpy_s gets the right first result.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I think MS is moving away from MSDN for documentation. New location is https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/

Searching for strcpy_s gets the right first result.

Interesting -- VS 2013 F1 help goes to the old docs and broken old search, hopefully newer versions fixed that.