Archive for July 6th, 2006

Search engines for programmers

One thing that I’ve noticed, and I’m sure many of you have noticed, is how hard it is to search for documents containing programming terms such as “operator!=” or “read()”. The results on Google are completely worthless. Lycos results are similarly worthless.
I was surprised to find that AltaVista seems to return relevant results for “operator!=”, [...]