My current product started off as precisely that kind of search engine.
User adoption is a huge problem - almost no users made it their default search engine because even programmers need to do non-programming searches and it's too easy to go into your browser, hit ALT+d, bang out your search query, and hit enter.
And because google and ddg do a good job on most programming related searches, they get to be the default search engines.
User adoption is a huge problem - almost no users made it their default search engine because even programmers need to do non-programming searches and it's too easy to go into your browser, hit ALT+d, bang out your search query, and hit enter.
And because google and ddg do a good job on most programming related searches, they get to be the default search engines.