Search Engine For Coders to Launch

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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Works well already.

[grub]

Results <b>1 - 10</b> of about 893,795,000 for "/* I hate working at EA */"

Where does it say that Google is launching it?

[frangipani]

This sounds like a new company, not a product of Google.

Re:Where does it say that Google is launching it?

[Otter]

More accurately -- "the company about to get sued by Google". In fact, Zonk may have just given Google's lawyers Exhibit A on proving "confusingly similar".

koders

[andy314159pi]

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

Re:koders

[NialScorva]

I was going to make a smart-ass comment about it not having lame, but turns out that it does

Re:koders

[cosmo99]

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.

Already done

[unixmaster]

http://www.koders.com/

Good for Sony!

[Vinnie_333]

This will make it so much easier for Sony's programmers ....

Uh oh...

[gabecubbage]

This is a spectacularly bad idea...

I estimate only three days before someone successfully compiles Krugle on a shiny new Mactelnix box and ushers in the Singularity overnight, and twenty years ahead of schedule.

"I'm sorry Sergey... I'm afraid I can't do that..."

Community?

[binaryDigit]

Some other interesting features above and beyond simple searching could be:

- merge with semantic web work to be able to search on higher level concepts (e.g. if I type "bubble sort" it returns all bubble sorting code even if it doesn't explicitly say "bubble sort" anywhere).

- "community" features that allow developers to leave comments on code (no, not comments _in_ code, but on code, similar to epinions et al).

- if this index is available via api like the main google index, then people could do things like have automated lint type tools.

- code chain. If I search for some code, then it'd be nice to be able to then peruse that codes hierarchy within the search engine (vs having to download it or cvs over to it).

nothing new

[Krunch]

Koders does that for some times now.

Filtering out buggy code

[ewg]

I hope you can add -buggy to your query to filter out all the buggy code.

Access confidential code!

[labreuer]

For example, confidential Novell code. (In case that link doesn't work, search for "StopWatch" in "C#"; there are only two results.)

Will this new site perform such wonders?

DWIM()

[EatHam]

Now I'll finally be able to find that Do What I Mean function I've been searching for.