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Google Code Search has been launched

Summary: Google Code Search is now live.  It is very straight forward, and does exactly what it says -- searches code.

Garett Rogers

By Garett Rogers for Googling Google |

Google Code Search is now live.  It is very straight forward, and does exactly what it says -- searches code.  I was hoping it would search language documentation too, but that's not the case. 

If you are familiar with regular expressions, you can use these powerful strings to get some very specific code examples.  What you are searching comes from a huge variety of sources -- any code that Google could find, it indexed.  That includes files found in compressed and archive files scattered around the internet.


The results are a bit ugly, and I don't know how useful it will be -- but when I need answers to a coding problem, I'll give it a shot.  For complete details visit the FAQ.

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  • It does what it says on the Box!

    For any one learning or coding in a new/different language this provides excellent access to relevant sample code, a nice touch used with a little common sense could be a valuable tool.
    lucan07@...
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  • krugle is much better!

    krugle.com already provides this service and is quite good to use. actually the the way krugle displays the results is much more informative that what google does.
    lvr_yasaswi@...
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    • disagree

      I just tried both services and unless there's something deeper I'm not seeing after a few minutes of trying, the google search looks much more useful.

      I'll grant that the krugle output format may be nicer, and the UI has more bells and whistles, but basic searching doesn't seem to be as thorough. For example google was able to find code that I wrote for an RCP tutorial article but krugle was not. Also google is aware of licenses, even though it doesn't always get them right.
      Ed Burnette
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  • Nice tool

    Well, google has been successful so far in launching one after another new products which are useful and I am sure this one will be warmly welcomed by developer community
    sids70
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  • Nice tool

    Well, google has been successful so far in launching one after another new products which are useful and I am sure this one will be warmly welcomed by developer community

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