Github search does many, many things you can&#x27;t trivially recreate through a Google search:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;advanced" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search&#x2F;advanced</a><p>You can access all of this functionality with ghrabber.<p>One of my suggestions to Github is that they disable indexing of dotfiles of all persuasions (including contents of dot-directories), unless the repo owner explicitly opts in. That would make it much harder to find a very large fraction of the more obvious leaks.