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First announced in public preview in January and broadened to the Issues dashboard in February
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Since public preview, the results have spoken for themselves.
Key facts
- Not only have users had greater success in finding what they need, but when they are able to search successfully, that desired result is in the top three issues shown 75% of the time, compared to 66%
- Semantic and hybrid queries are rate limited to 10 requests per minute
- If you are accessing search via GraphQL, you can use the searchType argument on the search query with SEMANTIC or HYBRID
- First introduced in public preview in January and expanded to the Issues dashboard in February, improved search for GitHub Issues is now generally available
Summary
Finding the right issue got easier. Natural language search across issues: Describe what you’re looking for in plain language and GitHub returns conceptually related results, even when the wording doesn’t match. Issues index and dashboard: Semantic search works both within a single repository and across your repositories on the issues dashboard. Hybrid search: When you search with natural language, GitHub combines semantic and keyword matching in the same query, so you get both conceptually related results and exact matches together.