Advanced search options, more the better. Search by user, project, date, file type, language, etc. and allow multiple selections and negation. Search results ordering (by date, relevance, other facets) Deduplication in search —- often times you just get pages of results that are all forks

They do have some here: https://github.com/search/advanced

I think they made it harder to find - I remember being able to get to it in just the search bar. Having the syntax autocompleted for you would be nice.