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by lostmsu 604 days ago
IMHO, a couple of major issues with this are some properties of Nix documentation websites, that make them not popup in search engines on certain queries.

In this particular case it would be great to have "nixos Android SDK" or "nixos adb" return either a hypothetical page like "NixOS.org/programs/adb" or at least "wiki.NixOS.org/pages/Android-SDK". There's a problem with "nixos.wiki" showing up instead. If both are controlled by the community, "NixOS.wiki" should instead do permanent redirects to "wiki.nixos.org" so that search engines would correctly show it.

Somebody really needs to work on this, this hurts the adoption A LOT.

Edit viraptor in the sibling said it is the fault of user they didn't use documentation. No, it is not. We've known for long that global search is much better interface to docs, the approach with custom UX and per-feature search (in Nix: programs, services, setup instructions, wiki, options, etc) just sucks and needs to support the efficient one.