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SymbolHound

51 points by geoka9 12y ago

thealistra 12y ago
Google has the verbatim option for that. Search Tools -> Verbatim
- iamcurious 12y ago
  I tried google's verbatim but it returned no results for <$>. Meanwhile symbolhound returned several relevant stackoverflow posts.
  - thedufer 12y ago
    Assuming that's Haskell, you probably want Hoogle (https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/ https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/). For any other language, SymbolHound seems quite useful.
    - iamcurious 12y ago
      Yes, it is. Hoogle is brilliant and I highly recommend it to anyone that programs in Haskell.
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dskang 12y ago
I love the idea of a search engine like SymbolHound, but I find the results lacking in practice. For example, a search for Swift's nil coalescing operator turns up nothing of relevance: http://symbolhound.com/?q=swift+%3F%3F http://symbolhound.com/?q=swift+%3F%3F (Actual information about "??" in Swift for anyone interested: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/BasicOperators.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH6-ID60 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...)
- dncrane 12y ago
  Hi, I'm the developer of SymbolHound. You're right, SymbolHound's index is a little lacking, especially for new languages. This is because it's based almost entirely on a stackoverflow data dump (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...) from when I first made it (2011). Swift was released in 2014, so there are no results. I'm planning to update it when I have the time.
theophrastus 12y ago
(:.) haskell no luck there
- biscarch 12y ago
  For Haskell, Hayoo[0] works well [0]: http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=.%3A http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=.%3A
rexbee 12y ago
Looks very similar to http://nerdydata.com http://nerdydata.com which let's you search the source code of webpages. They don't seem to index many stackoverflow posts though..
- Xorlev 12y ago
  SymbolHound seems more geared at searching docs.
karlzt 12y ago
Discussed a little bit 1250 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266644

SymbolHound

51 points by geoka9 12y ago

thealistra 12y ago

Google has the verbatim option for that. Search Tools -> Verbatim

iamcurious 12y ago
I tried google's verbatim but it returned no results for <$>. Meanwhile symbolhound returned several relevant stackoverflow posts.
- thedufer 12y ago
  Assuming that's Haskell, you probably want Hoogle (https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/ https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/). For any other language, SymbolHound seems quite useful.
  - iamcurious 12y ago
    Yes, it is. Hoogle is brilliant and I highly recommend it to anyone that programs in Haskell.

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dskang 12y ago

I love the idea of a search engine like SymbolHound, but I find the results lacking in practice. For example, a search for Swift's nil coalescing operator turns up nothing of relevance: http://symbolhound.com/?q=swift+%3F%3F http://symbolhound.com/?q=swift+%3F%3F (Actual information about "??" in Swift for anyone interested: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/BasicOperators.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH6-ID60 https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...)

dncrane 12y ago
Hi, I'm the developer of SymbolHound. You're right, SymbolHound's index is a little lacking, especially for new languages. This is because it's based almost entirely on a stackoverflow data dump (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...) from when I first made it (2011). Swift was released in 2014, so there are no results. I'm planning to update it when I have the time.

theophrastus 12y ago

(:.) haskell no luck there

biscarch 12y ago
For Haskell, Hayoo[0] works well [0]: http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=.%3A http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=.%3A

rexbee 12y ago

Looks very similar to http://nerdydata.com http://nerdydata.com which let's you search the source code of webpages. They don't seem to index many stackoverflow posts though..

Xorlev 12y ago
SymbolHound seems more geared at searching docs.

karlzt 12y ago

Discussed a little bit 1250 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3266644