Google offers specialized source code search |
I wondered how long it would be before Google took on Koders and Krugle in a specialized search engine for coders that searches through code. Wonder no more, Google Code search has arrived.
Can’t speak for other developers but when it comes to searching for code I tend to use the resources at the programming language website or in the case of Visual Studio, the built-in search. For example, if I want to search for information on the function preg_replace in PHP I’d use php.net/preg_replace to consult the manual with examples. These source code search sites do allow convenient viewing of additional code samples.
For developer readers, do you use these code search engines or search through the manual and sample code?
Hat tip to Inside Google via Valleywag.
Update 10/12/2006 5:19pm PST: The official Google Blog lists the many different developer-oriented projects from Google.
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I do both. Sometimes the examples given in the manual speak technically over my head. But cross referencing other resources allows me to conceptualize better.
Comment by Lestat — October 5, 2006 @ 1:36 pm PST
One thing it does do is get you worpress passwords.
Comment by orangecrush — October 5, 2006 @ 4:35 pm PST
That won’t get WP passwords from .php files, only from those who do a backup and zip or tar file containing the config file. Can’t imagine there is a reason for anybody to do that. Take a look at the search results and you’ll see that none are from .php files, noly from compressed files. If google or any other spider tries to retrieve a .php file they will only see the parsed file, not the raw text. Now that would be a security exposure.
Comment by TDavid — October 5, 2006 @ 7:13 pm PST