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.