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by jakobdabo 3486 days ago
Recently Github crippled (unfortunately) the Search function so that you can't search something in all the repositories at once (if you try it says that you "Must include at least one user, organization, or repository").

I used to use it to find out how other people use different library functions in the wild and it helped me to find good code examples many times in the past (especially when there were no documentation on the API). I wonder if there is any other code searching service with comparable coverage and quality.

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Works for me: https://github.com/search?q=test&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93 Is this not what you're talking about?
Hmm, your link shows me the same "Must include at least one user, organization, or repository" message that I've mentioned. Maybe they removed the feature only for not logged in users. Can't check it right now as I don't have my Github password on my phone.
This is the case. I checked this via incognito mode.