Searching for Code

Have you tried Krugle yet? Krugle is a search engine of open source code and technology pages. It is an indepensible tool to any developer. Need a special snippet of code for a specific task? Type in your search keywords and review the results.

Krugle searches code, tech pages, and projects. Code and projects return essentially the same thing; links to source code. Tech pages will find your search term in blogs and newsgroups.

I find the code search especially helpful. I have searched for grid computing, sorting, and EBCDIC; and have found useful code in each case. For me, the projects are most interesting, as I want a complete solution.

The site has a sweet Web 2.0 interface that includes plenty of Ajax. It also has allows sharing of notes. One point of contention though, I tagged several files with comments, but was unable to find them (my comments) later.

Google also has a code search capability too, but I believe it is inferior. In Google's case, the search results will highlight key words in source code files. True to Google form, its' code search is very spartan. Google does not have the Web 2.0 capabilities of Krugle, but it is fine for quick and dirty searches for very specific algorithm.

Kudos to Krugle. I suggest you add it to your bag of tricks.