The technology behind GitHub’s new code search | The GitHub Blog

A look at what went into building the world's largest public code search index.

The technology behind GitHub’s new code search - The GitHub Blog Timothy Clem · @tclem February 6, 2023 | 14 minutes Share: From launching our technology preview of the new and improved code search experience a year ago, to the public beta we released at GitHub Universe last November, there’s been a flurry of innovation and dramatic changes to some of the core GitHub product experiences around how we, as developers, find, read, and navigate code. One question we hear about the new code search experience is, “How does it work?” And to complement a talk I gave at GitHub Universe , this post give

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