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Search Engine For Coders to Launch
Posted by
Zonk
on Fri Feb 17, 2006 04:55 PM
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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.
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Works well already. (Score:5, Funny)
Where does it say that Google is launching it? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Where does it say that Google is launching it? (Score:5, Insightful)
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koders (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.koders.com/ [koders.com]
Re:koders (Score:5, Informative)
Neither koders nor krugle cover that, plus codefetch searches the api of several languages, java, ruby, php, for example.
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Re:koders (Score:4, Funny)
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Already done (Score:4, Informative)
Good for Sony! (Score:4, Funny)
Uh oh... (Score:3, Funny)
I estimate only three days before someone successfully compiles Krugle on a shiny new Mactelnix box and ushers in the Singularity overnight, and twenty years ahead of schedule.
"I'm sorry Sergey... I'm afraid I can't do that..."
Community? (Score:5, Interesting)
- merge with semantic web work to be able to search on higher level concepts (e.g. if I type "bubble sort" it returns all bubble sorting code even if it doesn't explicitly say "bubble sort" anywhere).
- "community" features that allow developers to leave comments on code (no, not comments _in_ code, but on code, similar to epinions et al).
- if this index is available via api like the main google index, then people could do things like have automated lint type tools.
- code chain. If I search for some code, then it'd be nice to be able to then peruse that codes hierarchy within the search engine (vs having to download it or cvs over to it).
nothing new (Score:3, Informative)
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).
Later in the year... (Score:3, Funny)
What I'd like.. Google with regex (Score:3, Insightful)
I want wildcards
Bah. (Score:3, Funny)
Filtering out buggy code (Score:5, Funny)
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?
What does it have over koders dot com? (Score:3, Informative)
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.
DWIM() (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NOT google (Score:3, Informative)
Re:err, i don't think it's from google (Score:3, Funny)