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Mar 3, 2017 at 23:43
Google now supports searching for language syntax like === https://blog.google/products/search/improvements-searching-special-characters-programming-languages/ (handy for infix heavy PLs like Scala or Haskell)
Improvements to searching for special characters in programming languages
Improvements to searching for special characters in programming languages
Now for queries containing sequences of 2-3 special characters such as [== vs ===] and [+=], Google will return results on the meaning of these sequences in programming …

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