Google Launches Code Search
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Google just announced a new search service designed to simplify how software developers search for source code. The service began internally within Google as a way for Google programmers to search through internal company code.
It’s no secret that most software developers spend a good portion of their day on Google or Google groups looking for a code block or some other information to get them through a sticky situation. I personally have logged more hours on Google Groups in the last 7 years that I care to think about.
The search works as you would expect, except that it searches code repositories such as Subversion or CVS instead of web pages. The advanced search allows you to use regular expressions, filter results by programming language or license type.
Either way, this has to be an improvement over the MSDN library.
Google Code Search [Google]
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