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Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oopsie dept.

saccade.com writes, "The new Google Code Search isn't just for hackers sniffing for passwords. Jason Kottke and friends have discovered the new feature reveals all sorts of dark corners hidden in our code. And you thought nobody ever read your comments!" From the article: "Code search is a great resource for web developers and programmers, but like the making available of all previously unsearched bodies of information, it's given lots of flashlights to people interested in exploring dark corners."

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  1. google seems to inspire... by Beuno · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Google seems to inspire this kind of behaviour for some reason. The have been lots of websites like krugle who search a big db of code, and these things didn't come up until google launched this.

    1. Re:google seems to inspire... by Kangburra · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think their success comes from the simple interface, that despite varied functions retains sufficient uniformity to facilitate usefulness.

      Jeez, I must have swallowed a dictionary!

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  2. Dark corners? by c0d3h4x0r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed!

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  3. And the Ever Popular... by gambit3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Windows Sucks"

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    1. Re:And the Ever Popular... by Karloskar · · Score: 5, Funny

      In Soviet Russia...
      I, for one, welcome our new xxxxxxxx overlords

    2. Re:And the Ever Popular... by Werkhaus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Whilst we're on the subject of /. memes...

  4. Bloody Microsoft by RyatNrrd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ten pages of righteous anger

  5. Fucks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It also inspired Number of fucks per programming language and license.

  6. This should never happen... by EvanED · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a fairly amusing one.

    I like the memset search on that page too... scary. People need to run Lint or something. (Will Lint pick up that error?)

  7. ??? Profit! by slavelayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Read Slashdot
    2. Search Google Code
    3. ???
    4. Profit!