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TechCrunch: Google Now Displaying Code Search Results

By Art Duszynski • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Found Elsewhere

This is interesting.

Starting today Google has integrated results from Code Search as snippets in the main search results page. Code Search was launched by Google in October of 2005 as a seperate vertical search property. As the name suggests, Code Search indexes and parses source code on the web and provides users a simple but flexible search and repository browsing interface.

*snip*

Users of Code Search are able to locate reference implementations of common algorithms or routines, or search for best or worst practices amongst the code published and available. and queries filter based on license, language, package and more. Code Search competes with both Krugle and Koders, startups that were both founded prior to the launch of the Google code search service but that both provide their own unique features respectively.

Read about it here.

Art Duszynski has been working on the web since 1998, and believes he's beginning to get the hang of it.
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