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I didn't know about those. The thing about !bang options is that you have to know something more about the problem to know the appropriate place to look--And that's the whole point of a search engine. The search engine should determine if the best/most popular solution to my problem is on one of those !bang sites or if it's on koders.com.


We're automatically detecting categories on blekko.com now. If you type in a programming question, it should return a category called /programming or /javascript, or whatever the language is you're looking for.

Examples taken from some stackoverflow posts:

http://blekko.com/#?q=Exception%20caught%3A%20java.io.FileNo...

http://blekko.com/#?q=No%20value%20for%20parameter

http://blekko.com/#?q=logger.error('Opps%20we%20got%20an%20e...




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