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I assume the site has been changed in response to the things people are saying here as the search box works and I was able to start trying queries immediately.
by omnicognate 5y ago
I assume the site has been changed in response to the things people are saying here as the search box works and I was able to start trying queries immediately.
First thing I tried was a dev-related query I was getting annoyed with Google about yesterday: GeneratorExecutionContext. This is a type used in C# source generators and is documented in the Microsoft .NET docs.
With Google, none of the first page results contain the string "GeneratorExecutionContext" or even relate to C# source generators. With you.com the desired ms docs result is the first listed and all the others are relevant.
I can get similar results on Google by enclosing the search term in quotes, but this doesn't absolve Google. GeneratorExecutionContext isn't an plausible typo for Thread.ExecutionContext or scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext or any of the other things Google listed. It's a verbatim match to something that exists in MS docs.
I find this kind of over-interpretation-by-dedault behaviour exceptionally annoying. Sure, if you think some leftfield interpretations of my input might be of interest, go ahead and add them into the results, but don't just assume I'm incapable of saying what I mean.
I don't know how you.com is actually working here, but frankly even if it's just a verbatim text search that includes common sources of programming info I'm interested. It certainly won on this single sample search.