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Search Engine For Coders to Launch

Posted by Zonk on from the sounds-codetacular dept.

karvind writes "According to Wired, 'Krugle' is set to next month. The search engine indexes programming code and documentation from open-source repositories like SourceForge, and includes corporate sites for programmers like the Sun Developer Network. The index will contain between 3 and 5 terabytes of code by the time the engine launches in March. According to article, Krugle also contains intelligence to help it parse code and to differentiate programming languages, so a PHP developer could search for a website-registration system written in PHP simply by typing 'PHP registration system.'" Update: 02/17 21:04 GMT by Z : Summary edited for accuracy.

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  1. koders by andy314159pi · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is already a pretty big repository that is easily searchable:
    http://www.koders.com/

    1. Re:koders by cosmo99 · · Score: 5, Informative

      http://www.codefetch.com/ searches a very useful collection of code: the source code from programming books.

      Neither koders nor krugle cover that, plus codefetch searches the api of several languages, java, ruby, php, for example.

  2. Already done by unixmaster · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.koders.com/

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  3. Re:Where does it say that Google is launching it? by chaidawg · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're right, its not google. It is going to be the "google of code searching" not "code searching by google"

  4. Re:NOT google by Creosote · · Score: 2, Informative
    Krugle (created by Ken Krugler - notice the name?) is in no way, shape or form affiliated with Google.
    Which will delay Google's trademark infringement suit for, what, a few milliseconds?
  5. nothing new by Krunch · · Score: 3, Informative

    Koders does that for some times now.

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  6. What does it have over koders dot com? by delire · · Score: 2, Informative



    Works well for me

    A wider breadth of supported languages would be nice however.

    That said if Krugle doesn't have the ability to filter on a per license basis, it will not be practical (or safe) for many.

  7. www.codefetch.com is another resource by cosmo99 · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.codefetch.com/ is a search engine that searches a very useful collection of code: the source code from programming books.

    Neither koders nor krugle cover that, plus codefetch searches the APIs of several languages, java, ruby, php, for example.

    Finally, unlike koders, codefetch lets you do a true full-text search, just like in a text editor-- go ahead, search for "+=" and you can even use a few regular expressions.

  8. Re: Already done (not) by twasserman · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was invited to see a live prelaunch demo of Krugle, which is named for Ken Krugler (co-founder and CTO). This site goes way beyond what is available in koders.com, since it pulls up tutorials, documentation, developer sites, and other relevant developer-related information. Thus, a search for PHP will give you php.net, but also lots of PHP-related sites, such as O'Reilly's OnLAMP, etc. They are planning to go live on March 8th, so you can check it out then. I was impressed.