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Google Unveils Code Search

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let-the-regexp-begin dept.

derek_farn writes, "Google now has a page that supports source code searching. I hope they extend it to be more programming-language aware (e.g., search for identifiers and functions) like the specialist code search sites (Krugle, Koders, and Codease), who probably now have very worried investors. I don't see any option to search for Cobol. I guess there is not a lot of Cobol source available on the Internet, even although there is supposed to be more Cobol source in existence than any other language (perhaps that statement is not true in the noughties)." From the Cnet.com article: "Google engineers, many of whom participate in open-source projects, already use these code searching capabilities internally. Since it is a Google Labs project, the company is not yet seeking to monetize searches through ads."

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  1. the one thing everyone will search by J3r3miah · · Score: 5, Funny

    sooner or later http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=fuck&btnG=Se arch+Code&as_lang=&as_license_restrict=i&as_licens e=&as_package=&as_filename=&as_case=

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  2. What's that I hear???? by bluelip · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the sound of millions of CS majors cheering!!!!

    Dang, this a neat tool.

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  3. No need to search for Cobol? by krell · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I don't see any option to search for Cobol."

    Well, that's one entire season of "Battlestar Galactica" rendered entirely pointless. Thanks a lot!

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  4. The old saying is true . . . by scottennis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good programmers write good code. Great programmers find it on Google!

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  5. Proof by jmv · · Score: 4, Funny

    Crap! There goes SCO's case.

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  6. Oh crap! by sparkyng · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope my CS professor doesn't find this until the semester is over.