Satan, Britney Spears Top Paris Hilton In OSS References

An anonymous reader writes "Krugle, a software search company, had some time on its hands — it compared frequency of mentions in open source code of presidential candidates, Beelzebub and yes, Britney Spears." I wish they'd link to a nice long list of the other terms this revealed — there are probably a lot of subtler funny references and asides.

Comments

Re:Am I missing something here?

[AKAImBatman]

If you do a search on Krugle, you'll find that most of the references are in database files, not code. e.g. Public figures tend to show up in example data files. There were quite a few Clinton jokes back in the day, so Hillary shows up in a number of files. Paris Hilton is a common "adult" keyword, so you'll notice .htaccess files restricting it.

Here are a few examples:

http://www.krugle.org/kse/files?query=Hillary%20Clinton
http://www.krugle.org/kse/files?query=Paris%20Hilton
http://www.krugle.org/kse/files?query=Barack%20Obama
http://www.krugle.org/kse/files?query=Tooth%20fairy

Even if you search for just code files, you sometimes find data inlined into a unit test:

http://www.krugle.org/kse/files?query=Tooth%20fairy&lang=java
http://www.krugle.org/kse/files?query=Hillary%20Clinton&lang=java
http://www.krugle.org/kse/files?query=Paris%20Hilton&lang=java

So there you go. A whole lot of non-news. :-)

Is the summary wrong or is the article misleading?

[LighterShadeOfBlack]

The summary suggests that they measured the frequency of mentions of these terms in the source code - the article seems to suggest that they measured the terms searched for using the Krugle search engine. The former would be interesting, the latter would not.

Re:Am I missing something here?

[RiotingPacifist]

Might give that a shot, heres what had to be removed from mozilla before they opened the source
http://www.jwz.org/doc/censorzilla.html