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You're right in that moving away from Google is a huge behavioral change. While our model does prefer natural language queries, what I was really referring to are the different categories of developer searches. Ad-hoc how-tos are a type of search where the developer knows what to do but not exactly how e.g "how to set a cookie in fastapi." Troubleshooting searches are things like copy-pasting a compile error, or "why is X behavior not working."

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I may not be representative, but the vast majority of my Google searches are troubleshooting.

If I need to know how an API works, I go straight to the docs.

Put another way, troubleshooting is a several times per week task for me, and doing something net new is a once a month task which may not result in a search query.

You’re going to have a hard time staying on my radar focusing on the less frequent case.

Possibly the traffic patterns are different for more junior devs, but my hazy recollection of my early career is spending most of my time troubleshooting.

Thanks for the perspective - we're working on improving our functionality for troubleshooting.

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