Yes, GH search leaves so much to be desired. And this post doesn't actually seem to address the weaknesses.
The search appears to be configured for natural language documents, not code. The stopwords are not right and search appears to strip all sigils. They could get pretty far just by parsing documents and changing their lucene/elasticsearch configuration.
The search appears to be configured for natural language documents, not code. The stopwords are not right and search appears to strip all sigils. They could get pretty far just by parsing documents and changing their lucene/elasticsearch configuration.