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Granted, this example came about when searching for Microsoft’s own documentation, but in the old days you would never use the MS search to find something, you would most likely back out and go to Google and search MS documentation from there. However, today when searching for the specifications for “SharePoint workflow actions file DesignerTypes” Bing returned the exact file (6th link down) to the field binding element definition.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897971.aspx
Over on Google (7th link down) I get a link to the summary overview page of the documentation.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897626.aspx
Not bad, but you would still have to hunt from there to get the elements you can use. However, what aggravates me most about Google’s results is everything else on the page are links to blogs.
If you ever want to find good programming documentation, Google seems to think you should be reading blogs. If it doesn’t return blogs, it sends you to forum posts, or worse yet, experts-exchange paid answers. Yea, that’s helpful, make me pay for information that if you had a GOOD ENOUGH search engine would have taken me to the documentation in the first place!
Alternately, Bing thinks I’ll find something helpful on the subject in one of the 3 power point files it returns. Anyone ever find anything helpful in a power point presentation online? I didn’t think so…
