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Re:Building a Search Engine for Programmers by riedel on Saturday June 13, 2020 @04:36PM (#23512472)
Best possible preview snippets would be essential when looking for trivial stuff : cant remember exactly how to do sth but knew it once (google does that for the best SO match i think)

Exception messages could be an important thing to focus on. That is the second thing i when search engines matter to me often (support fuzzy search here: abstract away the too concrete stuff but keep the actual message).

It would be great if you would understand versioning of documenations: it always takes me a while to understand if the docs apply to the version i am actually using.

Re:Building a Search Engine for Programmers by vdthatte on Saturday June 13, 2020 @06:59PM (#23513573)
exception messages are a pretty solid starting point, totally agree.

searching the most relevant versions are painful! I spend a lot of time in Swift where Xcode automatically suggests the newer version/syntax but wish VS code & others did this too.