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This is great. Would be nice if it considered symbols better.

Looked for "reject!" and it returned "reject" and "rejection" when "reject!" matches exist. Ironic given its name.



Agreed! It seems like exactly searching for special characters could be the "killer app" that programmers need which would get them to leave Google.


Even Github search is so bad. Has it improved any lately?


Yeah, yet another reason for me to switch from ElasticSearch—I need a stemmer that understands symbols (and also can distinguish English from function names and not try to inflect the latter).




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