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We actually use Google's Search API under the hood. It might be possible that Google is giving you different results in a browser based on your search history.

Can't really speak on integrations with Alfred and similar app right now. The idea is to build a separate app just for developers when they are searching for information.



> It might be possible that Google is giving you different results in a browser based on your search history.

This is actually from an Incognito window (same result in Firefox): https://imgur.com/tWCWQW1

> The idea is to build a separate app just for developers when they are searching for information.

Right makes sense but if I could have everything integrated with the launcher I use, it would extremely helpful, atm your default shortcut is the default shortcut of Alfred for example.


And for completion, here is Alfred performing the same search: https://imgur.com/iIkGdO1


Ah yes, you're right. I forgot we sort questions based on their upvotes.


The follow up question I hope someone can answer is how does google sort them?


This is a bit of a cop out answer, but Google probably sorts them based on something derived from PageRank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

In other words: according to some approximation of the authority of the page, given the graph of links to that page, and their estimated authority in the domain of the searched keywords -- it's possible (and likely, I think?) they aren't using stack overflow's vote counts in their sort at all.


> We actually use Google's Search API under the hood. It might be possible that Google is giving you different results in a browser based on your search history.

Cool project!

Just a heads up, the Google search API provides different results than the normal Google web search. [0] It uses a different index that isn't as big, and handles term matching a little differently. There will be a personalization element for different results, but there are a lot of results that Google just won't be return through the search API.

I also work a lot with the google API for Runnaroo [1] (and the Github and Stack Overflow APIs).

[0] https://support.google.com/programmable-search/answer/70392?...

[1] https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=python+unique+list+valu...




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