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by Arcsech 1688 days ago
What makes it "for devs"? I tried searching some programming queries that I'd typically make during a workday and the results were... fine, I guess, but it was basically just web results? Sometimes there were a few enhanced results, but they weren't very good or useful, like when I searched for `java string split` and got back enhanced results showing me how to split a string in Python and Javascript.

There's a bar of "search apps" along the bottom of the page that doesn't do anything if I click on any of them, so I dunno, maybe it would be better if I made an account and added some apps... or I could keep using DuckDuckGo and just type `!so java string split` when I forget trivial method signatures and want to search StackOverflow instead of figuring out what a "search app" is.

Also, this is really, really pushy about being your default search engine. That's a big step! It's like someone talking about moving in with you on the first date. Maybe convince me first?

I don't get it.