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Search often gives insufficient results #1457

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The search function on https://docs.julialang.org is IMHO not very good. Some examples:

  • searching for operators like ^ or && simply does not give any useful results at all
  • OK, maybe I have to search for Base.^ or Base.:^? Nope, does not work either
  • Interestingly, searching for Base.!= gives me a correct hit, but at about position 15 or so of the search results (number 1 is for some reason Base.fd?)
  • but what I really wanted to find is Base.literal_pow, which is mentioned in the documentation for Base.:^, so let's search for that; oh yeah, that gives the right result -- but again only at position 10 or so of the search results
  • though searching for literal_pow does work right, at least something
  • searching for @info gives no hit at all
  • searching for ... gives useless results (see Impossible to find ... (splat operator) in documantation JuliaLang/julia#36496)

I'll try to add more concrete examples as I come across them; but I've really struggled many times to find stuff in the Julia manual, even when I know it is there.

(This was JuliaLang/julia#38238)

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