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What is the best alternative to Google Code Search?

• pbreit 15y ago
  http://www.koders.com http://www.koders.com or http://opensearch.krugle.org http://opensearch.krugle.org
  • tlogan 15y ago
    Thanks. It seems like these two options are way behind Google Search. Maybe there is opportunity here to build a pay service for developers (like to find implementation patterns, common bugs, etc.). Anyway, I just want to express my disbelief with this google decision: Google is synonym for search. All kind of searches. Meaning if Google cannot provide good search for open source code then something is terribly wrong. When can say everything about Google and some failures of Google, but they are very very good in search. And, they want to be around for next 15 years, they must not lose on that front (even if it is just "open source search"). Anyway, I hope DuckDuckGo or some other search engine will try to do something here...
• daliusd 15y ago
  Recently I have found out that google search "function/class/variable/anything else filetype:extension" works even better than google code search.
  • reinhardt 15y ago
    I don't know how well does code search work for searching punctuation but I'm sure general web search doesn't cut it.
    • uriel 15y ago
      Code Search allows using regexps for searching, which is one of the things that made it super awesome.
• jackowayed 15y ago
  I'll often just do a GitHub search. If you're looking for something mainstreamish, there's probably some kind of public code using it on GitHub