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Good points :)

The problem was that fuzzy search would have been technically overwhelming to implement due to the size of our data sets (1 million sites * avg. # of leaked global variables). Also, it would have resulted in a lot of confusing matches because of how arbitrary JavaScript variable names are.

Keeping it to one-for-one case sensitive lookups was the only way to clearly express searching behavior and return accurate data every time. The downside is that we force people to read our homepage how-to to learn how to use it :)



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