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by BitwiseFool 1745 days ago
I'm going to bookmark this and check it out.

I've got a suggestion, I queried "C# ?." and my results were mostly generic about C# documentation. I wanted to get more information about how to use the null conditional operator.

I suspect the query is ignoring the '?.' because it thinks of it as unimportant symbols. Would it be possible to modify the search engine to treat punctuation as operators, or terms in-and-of-themselves?

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Thanks, I'm afraid there's little I can do as it's just using Google Custom Search Engine with whitelisted dev sites, but it should work if you type out the meaning of the symbols, e.g. "C# null conditional" instead of "C# ?." (or "C# question mark dot" to figure out what the symbols mean).