> I think you missed the forest for the trees... it is a Q&A system not just a search engine. You can talk to it, you can refine your queries.
From the creators:
> We're building a better search engine for software developers.
Also no you can't "talk to it", I'm not sure where you got that idea. It has a "Ask a follow up" but that performs a new search with none of the context of your previous search (also this UI of sliding a modal up from the bottom and layering the results is terrible).
> Search was the first step in finding information, Q&A is the next logical step.
And we are clearly not there. Not only does this not allow you to ask follow-ups to refine but it doesn't give good results in my testing.
I asked a question with "php" in the search then asked a follow up without including "php" in the search and it gave me python results. Also, and I'm sure this is a code formatting issue, the PHP code is invalid (newlines appear to be missing, the important one being after the opening tag) [0]
I don't see a followup in the screenshot you provided. Again, we're definitely not perfect with followups, but we generally do capture context. It would be very helpful if you could tell us your original search query, your followup, and your intent with this question.
That wasn't what I searched for and did a follow, here is a repeat of the original and follow up I tried (or as best as I can remember, I know it actually showed me python code last time, now it's showing SQL and python results).
Sidenote: This slide over modal (that hides the results of the first query, you cannot get to them once you do a follow up) has got to be the worst of all worlds. It's very unintuitive, doesn't provide any value, makes your initial query only as useful as what you can see "before the fold". Just redirect to the new results or append them under. This modal is frustrating to work with, it's a weird parallax-type thing: https://cs.joshstrange.com/d6rhPZ
From the creators:
> We're building a better search engine for software developers.
Also no you can't "talk to it", I'm not sure where you got that idea. It has a "Ask a follow up" but that performs a new search with none of the context of your previous search (also this UI of sliding a modal up from the bottom and layering the results is terrible).
> Search was the first step in finding information, Q&A is the next logical step.
And we are clearly not there. Not only does this not allow you to ask follow-ups to refine but it doesn't give good results in my testing.