Unless Gitlab or a similar product starts offering a way that I can search all the Gitlab projects, it's not going to amount to much. Github has taken over the

Unless Gitlab or a similar product starts offering a way that I can search all the Gitlab projects, it's not going to amount to much. Github has taken over the space not only because it's easy and powerful for creators: it's also a powerful search engine for users. As the article notes, the first thing many of us think when looking for code is "Lets search GitHub". Google is not efficient at searching for code. If each creator spins up their own project sites using Gitlab or other tool, there needs to be some way of searching the network of Gitlab sites if we want users to actually switch.