The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

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Hacker News Search

This is pretty neat. Feels like real time full text search. The user interface really reminds me of https://hn.algolia.com as well.

#Search Engine #Web Search #Blogging 1928 social mentions

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Keyboard Pilot

I'm reading your blog posts about building your own index now. I started writing my own very simple index and search engine, but quickly decided to just use ClickHouse via https://tinybird.co as my backend (Serverless SQL with automatic APIs is pretty sweet) because I wanted to build out the product side of things and my data is really small, so I felt like it was going to be a lot of effort for little reward. Maybe one day I will need to write a custom index or search engine that actually scales though :).

#Languages #Dictionary #Online Dictionary 4 social mentions

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grep.app

Actually I've been using https://grep.app for ages and while I agree on GitHub I basically only search the repo I'm in, that's mainly because Github's existing search sucks. On grep.app I regularly search all repos. It's very useful for finding out how to use APIs or where APIs from dependencies are defined. So I suspect you don't want it because subconsciously you know that Github's "search all" feature won't return you useful results. Hell they still don't provide a way to filter out test directories which makes the code search inside a single repo useless a lot of the time.

#Git #Code Collaboration #SCM 11 social mentions