# Improved Gist Search

DevFeed: [Improved Gist Search](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/improved-gist-search-70667.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://github.blog/news-insights/the-library/improved-gist-search/>)

Author: Tom Preston-Werner

Published: 2011-02-03T04:02:50Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [GitHub Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/github-engineering.md>)

Topics: [gist](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gist.md>), [search-engines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/search-engines.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [news-insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news-insights.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [the-library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/the-library.md>)

## AI overview

GitHub has completed the first phase of improvements to Gist search. The update adds highlighted matched snippets, syntax highlighting for files with a specified file type, and displays up to three matches per Gist file. The search index has also been improved, with a ranking formula that can be adjusted over time.

## Source excerpt

One of my New Year's resolutions for this year is to make GitHub search awesome. Today I'm happy to announce that Phase One of this project is complete, in the...