One of the (among many) reasons I stopped using GH code search is that the default ranking algorithm is extremely poor. Search relevance is awful, especially when it comes to surfacing forks.

90+% of the time I'm executing a code search, I'm looking for example uses of a library API in open source code. But most of the time, Github code search just surfaces pages upon pages of the same exact code snippet across the origin repository and hundreds of forks.

For example, one search I executed earlier today: https://github.com/search?q=load%28%22%40rules_foreign_cc%2F...