Is there any search engine that searches more indepth web?

Question

Is there any search engine that fills the gap where the normal search engines returns zero results.

Occasionally I need to do a search containing special characters. Like for instance searching for the gnu building configure parameter "--with-newlib". It is not rare for google to completely destroying the specific string och characters I want to search for and turning up with nothing or nothing useful.

It is really annoying knowing your desired search term is really common but not being able to return a single result.

edit: google code search seems to have it's uses but it doesn't search the web at all. I would much rather have highly ranked web pages containing the search term when I'm searching the web.

Answer 1

Google does not store those characters for normal search as they are rare and don't provide much benefit to mainstream search vs the cost of storing the extra info.

For what you want, try Google Code Search.

Answer 2

I like using Clusty, it returns search results in groups (clusters) that I find easier to whittle down than raw Google results.

See a search using your example, --with-newlib