Too much focus on adding docsets instead of improving search functionality itself

For example, looking for “Transitioning to ARC Release Notes”:

arc
Many results, but not the document requested. Dash just looks for the characters a, r and c, in that order anywhere in a class name, method name or document title, so it will return documents titles like “bsearch”.

“arc”
Looks for the characters “, a, r, c and “, in that order (yes, including the quotes). The few useless results include: python easy_install fails with "assembler for architecture …

arcrelease
Will return the document, but also: outputImageProviderFromBufferWithPixelFormat:pixelsWide: pixelsHigh:baseAddress:bytesPerRow:releaseCallback:….

releasenotesarc
Will not find it because the word “ARC” appears before “Release Notes” in the actual document.

It’s sad that I often need to do a search on the web, just to discover the title of a document, so I can find it in Dash. Add to that that it doesn’t search the document contents itself unless you are looking at your document already.

Dash really needs a better search functionality. The user needs to be able to differentiate between whole and partial words. It needs a separate text field for in-page searches.

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