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I love the idea of a search engine like SymbolHound, but I find the results lacking in practice.

For example, a search for Swift's nil coalescing operator turns up nothing of relevance: http://symbolhound.com/?q=swift+%3F%3F

(Actual information about "??" in Swift for anyone interested: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...)

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Hi, I'm the developer of SymbolHound. You're right, SymbolHound's index is a little lacking, especially for new languages. This is because it's based almost entirely on a stackoverflow data dump (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...) from when I first made it (2011). Swift was released in 2014, so there are no results. I'm planning to update it when I have the time.

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