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.
For a Google property such as Code Search, integration into the main large-scale traffic flow via the primary search results page is an indicator of product maturity. Previously seperate properties such as Finance and Maps followed a similar development and audience exposure path.
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.
Last week Google announced a number of improvements to Code Search, namely improved code highlighting, browsing (especially with larger projects) and ability to refine results based on class, project, file etc.
Good improvement.
The best part i feel is -
New features - code highlighting, browsing (especially with larger projects) and ability to refine results based on class, project, file etc.
In the Netherlands, this has been done since about half a year or so. Personally I do not like it, the results are most of the time useless, since they are in an other programming language, or are not at all relevant to your query.
I’ve been seeing this for months, I can’t say it’s very useful.
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> I’ve been seeing this for months, I can’t say it’s very useful.
>> the results are most of the time useless, since they are in an other programming language, or are not at all relevant to your query.
+1
I’ve seen this for a few months too…
@2,3,4,5: it was there for some users before and apparently harder to trigger the code snippet from google.com
i ve already used that, its not as useful as it appears, but it could help sometimes
brian
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I don’t think the programming language search results will exactly match the query because it can show the search results for specific code which have been already published however most of the code are encrypted.
the service which i will be using most !
Thanks google
Cool I will def have to use this feature next time I google.
I noticed Google Search results yesterday and posted an article on my blog http://www.techdreams.org/goog.....h-results/.
The search results of Code is good as general results. I was looking for a firefox plugin related code and Google took me to the right code I was looking for.
Why don’t they put their own code in there too?
There’s a sudden interest for open source search engines. And while this is not necessarily this, it’s a step in that direction.
wow… its awesome, google getting even better =D
> Starting today Google has integrated results from Code Search
> as snippets in the main search results page.
This had been rolling out since quite a while ago, see e.g. http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-03-31-n36.html
I like http://jexample.com better as the results are more accurate.
Why is there an extra “o” in http://gooogle.com/codesearch ?