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I thought it would be really cool until I realized the whole credit thing. It often takes many permutations of a search to find the results you're looking for. If each attempt costs money and the whole thing might be a waste in the end then it's hardly worthwhile.

I've always been annoyed that Google won't search for symbols. As a programmer that makes searching for certain things anywhere from difficult to impossible. I was hopeful that this would be a search engine I could use to search for code snippets or queries that involve symbols.

Let's say, for example, that I was browsing through some PHP code and saw a double dollar sign ($$) and wanted to know what it was used for (yes, I already know, it's just an example). I might try searching for something like 'PHP $$'. This search engine is useless for that. That's the real problem I need a search engine to solve.




Check out http://www.symbolhound.com/ for a programmer friendly search engine.


You just made my day :)


agree about the credits. i know you're trying to monetize, but forcing me to pay for searches (and view more results) is a bit on the ridiculous side. there are better ways to monetize than that.

from a UX perspective, any time you _prevent_ a user from doing something, ie, you present them with the option to view more things and when they click on it, it says you need to pay to view the things, that is BAD UX. better UX would be NOT presenting the user with the option to view more, but where they would look for this feature, have a link that says something like, "want to view more results? upgrade to our premium plan!" Much better UX because as a user I'm not tricked into thinking I'm getting something and not having it be delivered.

but yeah, unless you're more explicit about the credits thing, it's going to be your downfall. i like the design and the results that i got from my one search, though :)


I think charging for search in general is going to be their downfall. There are so many search engines these days that without bringing something truly revolutionary to the table, you'll be hard pressed to get much notice even offering it for free. Charging for it? Not a chance. There are other ways to monetize search.


You can search stackoverflow, but not github for "symbolic operators"

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[php]+%22%24%24%22

also, languages that need it have their own type signature based search (haskell, scala)

http://scalex.org/

http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/




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