Search engines for searching code bases is nothing new, but this time Google did it with Google Code Search.
Obviously, it only searches "publicly accessible source code" but there is plenty of that available. Specifically, you can search within archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip), CVS repositories and Subversion repositories. There are advanced restrict functions that Google allows you to use to find your code of choice, to only search PHP you can use this command, [lang:php].
Yes, there is an API for this product and you can submit your code to the index as well. Hey, search engine optimization for your code. Outsourcing firms, you may have a niche or vertical creep strategy at your finger tips here soon.
Link to: Google Code Search
News source: Search Engine Roundtable
Obviously, it only searches "publicly accessible source code" but there is plenty of that available. Specifically, you can search within archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip), CVS repositories and Subversion repositories. There are advanced restrict functions that Google allows you to use to find your code of choice, to only search PHP you can use this command, [lang:php].
Yes, there is an API for this product and you can submit your code to the index as well. Hey, search engine optimization for your code. Outsourcing firms, you may have a niche or vertical creep strategy at your finger tips here soon.
Link to: Google Code Search News source: Search Engine Roundtable
if i search for bubble sort i get useless results
Did you perhaps declare a particular language, or encapsulate the term "bubble sort" in quotes?
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=lang%3A...2bubble+sort%22
ROFLMAO!!
Steven, your title sounds like some mumbo-jumbo - you have managed to use the derivatives of the words 'code' and 'search' 3 and 2 times respectively in an 8 word title. Have you ever heard of synonimity in the English language?
The news posters here get beaten up if they change words. They get beaten up if they don't. Lighten up, wicker_man.
The news posters here get beaten up if they change words. They get beaten up if they don't. Lighten up, wicker_man.
I am lightened up, man - it's Friday after all
Anyway, I have found a better post.
or am i going blind??
Use C/C++. Do you know any operating system that are written in Pascal or Delphi? If you want to do native system calls you better write in C/C++....
Use C/C++. Do you know any operating system that are written in Pascal or Delphi?
Wow, thanks for the tip - I'll remember that next time I am planning to write an OS. You might want to throw some assembler into your mix too.
Yeah right... I can make exactly the same system calls in Delphi as anyone in C/C++.
Use C/C++. Do you know any operating system that are written in Pascal or Delphi? If you want to do native system calls you better write in C/C++....
How do you suppose people write Windows programs with VB, C#, X-86 Assembly, or any of the other languages available if they can't make native system calls?
Any programming language that's available for Windows can do native system calls.
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