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Re:Building a Search Engine for Programmers by Syzygies on Saturday June 13, 2020 @06:32PM (#23513395)
Literal search, including punctuation and spaces. Ideally regex searches. Mainstream engines are case-insensitive-on-steroids. Technical searches are literal.
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Re:Building a Search Engine for Programmers by karmakaze on Saturday June 13, 2020 @06:53PM (#23513536)
Hound search does this[0]. I provide a hosting for it[1].

[0] https://github.com/hound-search/hound

[1] https://gitgrep.com

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Re:Building a Search Engine for Programmers by vdthatte on Saturday June 13, 2020 @07:03PM (#23513600)
oh wow this is amazing, will play around with it!
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Re:Building a Search Engine for Programmers by ykevinator on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:44AM (#23517999)
Definitely this, google strips an engineers search to make it a consumer search, not doing this would be a huge value add
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