Internet search giant Google delivered this week a new online search tool that combs publicly available software source code and connected documentation online. Always looking to extend its forte — ferreting pertinent search results from billions of Web sites, pages and documents on the Internet — Google said the new beta service, Google Code Search, would help software hackers quickly find source code using more precise “regular expressions,” and will scour the Internet for code based on programming language, license or filename.
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Google Targets Developers With Code Search Tool
Posted by: Jay Lyman October 5, 2006 01:49 PMInternet search giant Google delivered this week a new online search tool that combs publicly available software source code and connected documentation online. Always looking to extend its forte — ferreting pertinent search results from billions of Web sites, pages and documents on the Internet — Google said the new beta service, Google Code Search, would help software hackers quickly find source code using more precise “regular expressions,” and will scour the Internet for code based on programming language, license or filename.