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Maybe Im misunderstanding, but why cant you just search said string in their github collection? The only reason I could think of is that github search is a bit broken…

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GitHub search requires an account now, but more importantly it's poorly indexed by Google et al. You only look something up on GitHub if you're expecting to find it on GitHub.

Yeah it's a bummer how google treats github, today I was googling something for a random piece of hardware. I kept finding wonky tutorials and so on and then ... thought "wait maybe github?" blamo, that company had put all their code on there. I didn't even know they did that / they didn't really advertise they were open source or such.

I found repositories, example code, and readmes that matched my google searches exactly, but I never saw them on google :(

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