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I'd like to know more about the "built for devs" concept you are presenting to us. What does that mean to you? For me personally, I rarely perform site:github.
by BitwiseFool 5y ago
I'd like to know more about the "built for devs" concept you are presenting to us. What does that mean to you?
For me personally, I rarely perform site:github.com or site:stackoverflow.com searches in my browser's default search engine. I typically just enter a few keywords and try to make sense of what I find.
When I personally think of a search engine built for devs, I think of one that parses queries differently from the natural language processing that seems to be all the rage these days. For instance, when I search "?. C#" I want to know what this operator actually is. Instead, the algorithm omits the ?. and just returns the most generic results relating to C#. https://you.com/search?q=%3F.%20C%23&fromSearchBar=true https://you.com/search?q=%3F.%20C%23&fromSearchBar=true This is true even when I put the "?." in quotes. One of the results is titled "Null coalescing operator" from Wikipedia, but this is actually misleading since ?. is actually the null-conditional operator. The information is there but it is not easy to find.
The other item on my wishlist for a dev-centric search engine is to be able to persist the main language(s) I am trying to search about. Its mildly tedious to type C3 and then my keywords (..... dammit, C#, this happens ALL the time), in each query to narrow things down and not get javascript results.
- the_jeremy 5y agoSymbolHound (http://symbolhound.com/ http://symbolhound.com/) is the only one I've found that doesn't ignore special characters.
- richardsocher 5y agoHey. Sorry for the slow reply. We will open up the platform so people can contribute their own apps to the platform. You can also prefer certain sources and hence have real agency over your results. We'll look into the ?.C# query and what can be done better for queries like it. Thanks for your feedback :)
- vin047 5y ago> I rarely perform site:github.com or site:stackoverflow.com searches in my browser's default search engine Built-in site:reddit.com searches would be handy.