Search functionality in gradle docs is not as good as it previously was

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I’m currently following along the DPE university for gradle:
https://dpeuniversity.gradle.com/courses/012de84f-fcd3-45d4-9c4c-284382eb3f3f/activities/6f37fa1e-578e-4493-8a06-dc6fcef84f43

Here’s an example of the search results shown in the video:

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It then leads to this page here:
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_plugin.html#sec:java_tasks

Here’s an example of search results now:
(unable to link a second image since I’m a new user.
Instead, try it yourself by going here: Gradle User Manual
and searching for “compileJava”)

Notice that none of the results link to that same page.

Note that the first result links to the javadoc page, not the gradle page:
https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/plugins/JavaPlugin.html

Instead I had to use Google to search for that page.

Can we revert back to previous search functionality to make following DPE university videos easier?

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I recommend you ask for this as GitHub issue.
This here is mainly a community forum and even if a Gradle employee sees this thread, it is hard to track and resolve work here.

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Created: Search functionality in gradle docs is not as good as it previously was · Issue #29451 · gradle/gradle · GitHub

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Btw., while I fully agree that the search provides less helpful results now, just wanted to let you know that there is also a search on Gradle | Search for Help with Gradle Build Tool that searches through more than just the docs and there the first non-spnosored result is still the Java plugin page. :slight_smile: