Help Wanted: Search Engine Techs Apply Within
Last week, Google announced some updates to their Code Search. They expanded their crawl to include not just complete archives, but also individual code files and code snippets from web pages as well. They also made a few ranking adjustments, such as putting class and function definitions closer to the top for a lot of searches. Code Search is also now available in domains outside the United States. Below, I found three Alternative Code Search Engines, but I know as much about Code as I do about Sanskrit!
So are there any “techies” around who can evaluate these Alternative Code Search Engines for us?
All The Code is a source code search engine, presently for the Java language, but with more languages being added soon. Unlike similar source code search engines, All The Code considers the relation between code and uses this to help judge the relevance.
Koders is a search engine for open source code. Their source code search engine provides developers with an interface to search for source code examples and discover new open source projects which can be leveraged in their applications.
Codase is a source code search engine with advanced source code understanding and xml index/search technologies. Rather than treating code as text, Codase treats code as code. This syntax-aware approach provides search results with fine granularity levels of controls. With Codase, one can search functions, classes, strings, constants, macros, comments and other programming language constructs.
