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Remember Google Code Search? That was a great feature of Google search. You could search for swear words in all the code available worldwide. In one (Sun Micros

by jansan 8y ago

Remember Google Code Search? That was a great feature of Google search. You could search for swear words in all the code available worldwide. In one (Sun Microsystems?) code there was a comment "The user is a wanker. He cannot remember his password." The old days were much more fun.

marbu 8y ago
Yes, google code search was a great service. One could use regular expressions and limit the search to particular language or license. Moreover it indexed code from any tarball or repository google bot run into, so the sheer size of data one was searching was hard for others to match.
tim333 8y ago
This has a similar comment. Gnome Display Manager http://rc.quest.com/viewvc/gdm/vendor/gnome/daemon/slave.c?diff_format=s&view=markup&sortby=date&sortdir=down&pathrev=4 http://rc.quest.com/viewvc/gdm/vendor/gnome/daemon/slave.c?d...
- jansan 8y ago
  Yes, that may be it. Great find! And sorry to Sun Microsystems, it wasn't you this time.
- nerdponx 8y ago
  /* evil! how this this happen */ \ 239 if (slave_start_jmp_error_to_print != NULL) \ 240 gdm_error (slave_start_jmp_error_to_print); \ 241 gdm_error ("Bad (very very VERY bad!) things happening in signal"); \ 242 _exit (DISPLAY_REMANAGE); \ 243 } I'd hate to be the poor soul who encounters this error message and finds no information about it except the source code.
  - arghwhat 8y ago
    It will only occur if everything is so irrevocably on fire that you need to debug a lot of code anyway, at which point the error message is useless. Specifically, the branch is only reachable if the PID is not what was expected, or the location that the macro was supposed to longjmp to is not set, which would be fatal defects.
secure 8y ago
I built https://codesearch.debian.net https://codesearch.debian.net when Google Code Search was taken down. Debian Code Search doesn’t crawl, but it indexes all software in Debian, which is typically helpful enough :)
- _wmd 8y ago
  I use this at least once a month! Thanks sooooooo much!!!
- vanous 8y ago
  Thank you very much for sharing, I am glad to have seen your comment here.
0x00000000 8y ago
Don't remind me of how awful GitHub search is. I guess code search is just too niche with no marketability to ever improve
- superbaconman 8y ago
  I find myself using source graph; It seems to work well enough.
  - wangyjx 8y ago
    yes, source graph looks great. Using docker, every easy to deploy on any OS
- aj7 8y ago
  GitHub search? Try nytimes.com search.
  - WAthrowaway 8y ago
    lol i worked in the same department as the search team. what a nightmare - some of the code in there went back to the 90s
  - BLanen 8y ago
    Is it worse than reddit?
  - CM30 8y ago
    Try the search feature in many CMS systems. Those tend to really suck, with WordPress' being awkward enough that a whole ecosystem of plugins cropped up to replace it. There's also at least one version of the OpenCart admin search which was designed so poorly that it didn't actually search based on whether the term was anywhere in the page title/content, but whether the title started with the search term (I think they'd screwed up the MySQL syntax). That was interesting. Either way, search on a system not designed as a search engine is usually okay at best, absolutely terrible at worst.
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z3phyr 8y ago
Standardization took place and the "business class" caught up.
- lrem 8y ago
  Care to elaborate?
yegle 8y ago
If you host your code on Google Cloud Source Repository you can use the search feature https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/searching-code https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/searching-...
aj7 8y ago
Wankers tend to be good at password remembering.
gvurrdon 8y ago
I wonder if the writer of that comment was American or British - it appears that the term is somewhat less offensive in the US. Once, whilst watching a relatively mainstream US series I was surprised to see a character refer to their colleagues as "wankers", which seemed rather incongruous.
- reaperducer 8y ago
  it appears that the term is somewhat less offensive in the US. A lot of ordinary British things are seen in the U.S. through a filter of... let's call it "quaintness." Swear words. Thatched roofs. Music on AM radio. So, yeah. Whatever offensive word you heard probably didn't have the same impact on the other side of the Atlantic. There's probably some reciprocity, too.
  - millak 8y ago
    My experience is that this doesn’t apply to the see you next Tuesday word, at least here in Canada. It’s seen as very offensive according to the Canadians I know. Speaking as a Brit, that word is thrown around quite casually in the UK!
    - reaperducer 8y ago
      That's what I meant by reciprocity. Brits have their own quaintness filter for some of the words that NorthAms see as out of bounds.
    - acct1771 8y ago
      For clarity's sake, and as a demonstration against censorship: "cunt"
niutech 8y ago
There are alternatives: https://searchcode.com https://searchcode.com and https://sourcegraph.com/search https://sourcegraph.com/search
sp1982 8y ago
Another alternative I am working on in past time is https://codegrep.com https://codegrep.com - currently indexes top few thousand repos from github.
Buge 8y ago
You can still search Chrome though https://cs.chromium.org/ https://cs.chromium.org/
londons_explore 8y ago
Google still uses code search widely internally. It's one of their greatest internal-only productivity boosts. The fact it has knowledge of includes and cross-references and function prototypes and templates is amazing... You can still use it as an outsider to search Chromium: https://cs.chromium.org/ https://cs.chromium.org/
- londons_explore 8y ago
  Regex support is amazing to have in a search engine too... For example, paste in an email address validating regex: https://cs.chromium.org/search/?q=%5Cb%5BA-Z0-9._%25%2B-%5D%2B@%5BA-Z0-9.-%5D%2B%5C.%5BA-Z%5D%7B2,%7D%5Cb&sq=package:chromium&type=cs https://cs.chromium.org/search/?q=%5Cb%5BA-Z0-9._%25%2B-%5D%... Considering that one can't 'index by regex', I wonder how the backend works - does it actually run the regex against every source code line in the repository in a few hundred milliseconds? Sounds expensive! They must have thousands of machines! Maybe thats why they don't have a public codesearch tool for the whole internet...
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by jansan 8y ago

marbu 8y ago

Yes, google code search was a great service. One could use regular expressions and limit the search to particular language or license. Moreover it indexed code from any tarball or repository google bot run into, so the sheer size of data one was searching was hard for others to match.

tim333 8y ago

This has a similar comment. Gnome Display Manager http://rc.quest.com/viewvc/gdm/vendor/gnome/daemon/slave.c?diff_format=s&view=markup&sortby=date&sortdir=down&pathrev=4 http://rc.quest.com/viewvc/gdm/vendor/gnome/daemon/slave.c?d...

jansan 8y ago
Yes, that may be it. Great find! And sorry to Sun Microsystems, it wasn't you this time.
nerdponx 8y ago
/* evil! how this this happen */ \ 239 if (slave_start_jmp_error_to_print != NULL) \ 240 gdm_error (slave_start_jmp_error_to_print); \ 241 gdm_error ("Bad (very very VERY bad!) things happening in signal"); \ 242 _exit (DISPLAY_REMANAGE); \ 243 } I'd hate to be the poor soul who encounters this error message and finds no information about it except the source code.
- arghwhat 8y ago
  It will only occur if everything is so irrevocably on fire that you need to debug a lot of code anyway, at which point the error message is useless. Specifically, the branch is only reachable if the PID is not what was expected, or the location that the macro was supposed to longjmp to is not set, which would be fatal defects.

secure 8y ago

I built https://codesearch.debian.net https://codesearch.debian.net when Google Code Search was taken down. Debian Code Search doesn’t crawl, but it indexes all software in Debian, which is typically helpful enough :)

_wmd 8y ago
I use this at least once a month! Thanks sooooooo much!!!
vanous 8y ago
Thank you very much for sharing, I am glad to have seen your comment here.

0x00000000 8y ago

Don't remind me of how awful GitHub search is. I guess code search is just too niche with no marketability to ever improve

superbaconman 8y ago
I find myself using source graph; It seems to work well enough.
- wangyjx 8y ago
  yes, source graph looks great. Using docker, every easy to deploy on any OS
aj7 8y ago
GitHub search? Try nytimes.com search.
- WAthrowaway 8y ago
  lol i worked in the same department as the search team. what a nightmare - some of the code in there went back to the 90s
- BLanen 8y ago
  Is it worse than reddit?
- CM30 8y ago
  Try the search feature in many CMS systems. Those tend to really suck, with WordPress' being awkward enough that a whole ecosystem of plugins cropped up to replace it. There's also at least one version of the OpenCart admin search which was designed so poorly that it didn't actually search based on whether the term was anywhere in the page title/content, but whether the title started with the search term (I think they'd screwed up the MySQL syntax). That was interesting. Either way, search on a system not designed as a search engine is usually okay at best, absolutely terrible at worst.
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z3phyr 8y ago

Standardization took place and the "business class" caught up.

lrem 8y ago
Care to elaborate?

yegle 8y ago

If you host your code on Google Cloud Source Repository you can use the search feature https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/searching-code https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/searching-...

aj7 8y ago

Wankers tend to be good at password remembering.

gvurrdon 8y ago

I wonder if the writer of that comment was American or British - it appears that the term is somewhat less offensive in the US. Once, whilst watching a relatively mainstream US series I was surprised to see a character refer to their colleagues as "wankers", which seemed rather incongruous.

reaperducer 8y ago
it appears that the term is somewhat less offensive in the US. A lot of ordinary British things are seen in the U.S. through a filter of... let's call it "quaintness." Swear words. Thatched roofs. Music on AM radio. So, yeah. Whatever offensive word you heard probably didn't have the same impact on the other side of the Atlantic. There's probably some reciprocity, too.
- millak 8y ago
  My experience is that this doesn’t apply to the see you next Tuesday word, at least here in Canada. It’s seen as very offensive according to the Canadians I know. Speaking as a Brit, that word is thrown around quite casually in the UK!
  - reaperducer 8y ago
    That's what I meant by reciprocity. Brits have their own quaintness filter for some of the words that NorthAms see as out of bounds.
  - acct1771 8y ago
    For clarity's sake, and as a demonstration against censorship: "cunt"

niutech 8y ago

There are alternatives: https://searchcode.com https://searchcode.com and https://sourcegraph.com/search https://sourcegraph.com/search

sp1982 8y ago

Another alternative I am working on in past time is https://codegrep.com https://codegrep.com - currently indexes top few thousand repos from github.

Buge 8y ago

You can still search Chrome though https://cs.chromium.org/ https://cs.chromium.org/

londons_explore 8y ago

Google still uses code search widely internally. It's one of their greatest internal-only productivity boosts. The fact it has knowledge of includes and cross-references and function prototypes and templates is amazing... You can still use it as an outsider to search Chromium: https://cs.chromium.org/ https://cs.chromium.org/

londons_explore 8y ago
Regex support is amazing to have in a search engine too... For example, paste in an email address validating regex: https://cs.chromium.org/search/?q=%5Cb%5BA-Z0-9._%25%2B-%5D%2B@%5BA-Z0-9.-%5D%2B%5C.%5BA-Z%5D%7B2,%7D%5Cb&sq=package:chromium&type=cs https://cs.chromium.org/search/?q=%5Cb%5BA-Z0-9._%25%2B-%5D%... Considering that one can't 'index by regex', I wonder how the backend works - does it actually run the regex against every source code line in the repository in a few hundred milliseconds? Sounds expensive! They must have thousands of machines! Maybe thats why they don't have a public codesearch tool for the whole internet...

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