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Remove stale links from CS vs GH page #316

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### Searching repositories, branches, and forks

GitHub allows you to search indexed code, but not all code is indexed. GitHub’s [current limitations](https://cs.github.com/about/faq#indexed-content) on indexed code are:
GitHub allows you to search indexed code, but not all code is indexed. GitHub’s current limitations on indexed code are:

* Files over 350 KiB and empty files are excluded
* Only UTF-8 encoded files are included
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GitHub analyzes how many matches are in the file, the quality of the matches, the kind of file, whether the searches match symbols, and the number of repository stars as inputs for ranking results.

Sourcegraph uses a repository’s number of stars to [rank](https://docs.sourcegraph.com/dev/background-information/architecture/indexed-ranking) the most important repositories first. The priority of a repository can be altered by admins with this [configuration](https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:%5Egithub%5C.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph%24+repoRankFromConfig&patternType=regexp&_ga=2.18586544.827352295.1667227568-1057140468.1661198534&_gac=1.82582244.1665776224.CjwKCAjwkaSaBhA4EiwALBgQaJCOc6GlhIDQyg6HQScgfSBQpoFTUf7T_NNqEX5JaobtCS08GUEJuRoCIlIQAvD_BwE&_gl=1*5o6st*_ga*MTA1NzE0MDQ2OC4xNjYxMTk4NTM0*_ga_E82CCDYYS1*MTY2NzM0MDAzNy4xMDQuMS4xNjY3MzQxNjUyLjAuMC4w). There are several other heuristic signals that help to make sure that the most important documents are searched first, including:
Sourcegraph uses a repository’s number of stars to [rank](https://docs.sourcegraph.com/dev/background-information/architecture/indexed-ranking) the most important repositories first There are several other heuristic signals that help to make sure that the most important documents are searched first, including:

* Up rank files with a lot of symbols
* Up rank small files
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