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!=”, although not for “read()”.

I am curious if there are any search engines out there designed for programmers. My (admittedly limited) searching hasn’t turned up any.

One Response to “Search engines for programmers”

  1. rone Says:

    Xney works at Kosmix, you might want to take a look at it (and if it sucks, you can bitch at him, too).

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