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This is one of the reasons why Google killing Code Search is so sad.


"To optimize the code for the most commonly used forms of selectors, we examined a cross-section of code from Google Codesearch."

I assume they found those github projects using code search. Code search may not be used a lot, but the people and projects using it have a large impact. Is there any way we can convince Google it's worth keeping it available?


Yes! Whenever someone on the jQuery team wonders, "But who does that anyway?" we turn to Google Codesearch. Often, we don't like the answers we find. But at least we find the answers. For example, the 600 occurrences of `$("document")` that should be `$(document)`.

http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=\$\%28\%22doc...


Bit of a me too post, totally agree, so sad.




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