Search Engine For Coders to Launch 149
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.
Regexp? (Score:2, Insightful)
Rock! (Score:3, Insightful)
And then there's the issue of missing modules that are referenced by other code. Usually you have to find them by trial and error. In a code search engine, (theoretically) it will simply come back with all instances of the constant I put in. Which means that I can locate the missing module faster than ever before!
If this works, Google will have seriously made the lives of thousands of programmers that much easier.
Kawahee's 2 cents (Score:3, Insightful)
Secondly, I believe "PHP registration system", or the example given in the summary is a sufficient enough query for Google to return something relevant anyway.
Beware of SEO (Score:3, Insightful)
Nowadays, websites are made for Google.. Their existence is justified by their PageRank.
I don't want SourceForge et al. to die the same death as Yahoo's old categories (did you notice that they completely disappeared ?).
Costs? (Score:3, Insightful)
Also, they really need the ability to search based on license. If I'm working on a GPL project, using it and finding Apache licensed code is only of minimum help. (I can base work off of it, but I can't just use it).
What I'd like.. Google with regex (Score:3, Insightful)
I want wildcards
Re:Where does it say that Google is launching it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Community? (Score:2, Insightful)
This is hilarious :) (Score:3, Insightful)
I love Slashdot
Access confidential code! (Score:3, Insightful)
For example, confidential Novell code [koders.com]. (In case that link doesn't work, search for "StopWatch" in "C#"; there are only two results.)
Will this new site perform such wonders?
Bet on a Buyout (Score:2, Insightful)