Hi all,
I encourage you to to fill out this survey.
While we are well aware that people use search every day as an important part of their jobs, we don't actually have a lot of good information on *how* people use it and what features are most important (or even missing or desired), and we'd like to fix that.
In addition, Codesearch is currently partially implemented on top of internal Google search tooling, not as something the Ops team owns and maintains directly, and so we're looking at how that works and will work going forward.
However, to be clear: I view codesearch as one of our fundamental tools, and the ability to search our codebase in a web browser isn't going anywhere. I do not want to lose any functionality that we are actively using; indeed, we want to keep making the experience better.
Please feel free to ask Emma or myself or other people on Operations (or reply to this thread) if you have questions or concerns about this. Given what I wrote above about the tooling being partially internal, there's only so many questions I can answer publicly, but I will answer the ones I can, and if you're a Googler and want to ask questions about the internal stuff, we can certainly answer those (elsewhere) as well.
Thanks,
-- Dirk