A search engine for programmers that returns better results than Google
A few days ago I told you about a search engine for software developers, today I am expanding the category with another option that, although it is still in beta mode, promises a lot.
This is Hello Cognition, and it is presented as a search engine for developers powered by generative AI, a search engine that instantly answers technical questions with simple explanations and relevant code snippets from the web.
The difference between using sayhello.so and using Google is that Hello Cognition displays the answer directly in the left column of the result, preventing us from clicking on links. When the question is very basic, the answer is immediate, otherwise you have to keep browsing until you find the ideal solution.
They comment in the presentation that software engineering is based on ad-hoc technical knowledge, where the most valuable information is found in the technical documentation or is scattered in discussion forums and blogs. While Google does a great job of finding useful links, it’s too broad and shallow a search tool to be great at suggesting actionable technical solutions.
Hello is a search engine that extracts code examples from technical sources, thus giving information so that we can move quickly, without the need to navigate between forums and websites.
In the example that you can see above, you can see that in the left column it shows the solution to create tables in CSS, although it is not as extensive a tutorial as the one we would find in specialized forums, it simply gives general advice.
If we ask it to count to 10 in python, for example, the result is the appropriate piece of code, with a link to more information in case we need it.
At the end of everything, always ask, is this result better than the one offered by Google? The answer is yes, without a doubt.
By the way, yes, it is the bane of technical forums and websites, since it avoids the programmer’s visit to the original website, showing his answer directly on his main page, just like Google does with its immediate answers.
