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.

koders

[andy314159pi]

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

Already done

[unixmaster]

http://www.koders.com/ [koders.com]

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

[chaidawg]

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

Re:NOT google

[Creosote]

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?

nothing new

[Krunch]

Koders [koders.com] does that for some times now.

What does it have over koders dot com?

[delire]

Works well for me [koders.com]

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.

Re:koders

[cosmo99]

http://www.codefetch.com/ [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.

www.codefetch.com is another resource

[cosmo99]

http://www.codefetch.com/ [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.

Re: Already done (not)

[twasserman]

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.