ErrorHelp.com: Search Engine for Errors

Search the world's database of error solutions and the web simultaneously. Later, provide your solutions to help the next poor soul. This site helps you search for errors that other people have encountered. Someone's bound to have run into your error before, right?

Imagine a world where all your command-line tools and software automatically connect you to people with similar errors. Imagine compiling software and seeing a list of solutions for mysterious cryptic dependency errors. Imagine getting a PHP or Python error and automagically getting the best-guess help from others like you.

The goal of the site is: No human should work on an error that has already been solved.

The Firefox extension is the recommended way to use the site. 

You should install it from Mozilla's addons site.

Features of Firefox add-on:

* Quick search form: Click on the bug icon in your status bar and your error will be automatically pasted in the search form.
* Web search: Simultaneously searches the web and the user solution database.
* Track unsolved errors: You see a running tally of your unsolved errors to provide some feedback on and help the world.
* See how you rank: You can see how you stack up against the rest of the world in solving problems.
* Light-weight: We try to write the most efficient code possible such that Firefox stays speedy and resilient.
* Help humanity! Your solutions will help the world. They are indexed by Google and other major search engines, too-- so don't hesitate to help the next guy!

IE7 Search Bar

Internet Explorer's search box can be extended to let you search for error messages on ErrorHelp.

Install this and you can choose ErrorHelp from the list of search engines when you find an error.

www.errorhelp.com