dev: Google Code Search

Posted on | October 5, 2006 | 1 Comment

looks like Google ain’t going to slow down these days: Code Search – Google’s effort on indexing source-code on the web – was launched earlier today. Code Search offers developers powerful ways (read: regular expressions) to search for code-snippets in any particular language, under any specific license. a quick test-drive unveiled that Code Search suffers from similar problems like established competitors Krugle and Koders: string-based search-results often mistake underlying semantics. when searching for an id3-implementation in PHP, results often lead to external function-calls, but not the actual source implementing id3. still, indexing source-code will definitely help making open source knowledge more accessible to average developers, not able/willing to spend hours/days to dissect code. looking forward on Danny Sullivan’s commentary on Code Search…

update: here’s a collection of [queries for]code that was not really supposed to be public

 

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