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It's been like that for years. Can't see it improving, now that they're going to have a monopoly on the market. I will happily pay money to anybody who can bui

It's been like that for years. Can't see it improving, now that they're going to have a monopoly on the market. I will happily pay money to anybody who can build a code search service that is actually functional.

dncrane 15y ago
This isn't exactly the same thing, but I launched a search engine for programmers (that is, it doesn't ignore special characters) a few weeks ago: http://symbolhound.com/ http://symbolhound.com/ It doesn't search code repositories, but rather tutorials and question/answer sites like stackoverflow. Right now stackoverflow dominates the results but that should change as we index more sites.
boyter 15y ago
Would you be interested in paying per search, paying for access or just general donations based on your experience? I ask as I am doing this but have not considered a business model for it as yet.
- Groxx 15y ago
  Micropayments suck, currently. If that ever changes, I'd be in favor of both per-search and access; until then, maybe a freemium setup? It'd be hard to hook programmers without letting them try it, and you can experiment with more computationally-expensive searches (regex, AST, etc) without letting random users tank your system. I wonder if you could even build a market off open-sourcing the engine, thus allowing people to improve it for you, and run a paid service that searches GitHub, Google, etc for results. Free accounts for contributors that fix bugs or provide speed / feature improvements? I dunno, just throwing ideas out while they're percolating, I haven't given them a whole lot of thought.
  - boyter 15y ago
    Yes I don't like micro-payments myself either. Freemium is my current plan. I had also considered the GitHub model. I will be making portions free-software as the whole thing is built off it anyway. If nothing else I will be going free for quite a while as I believe that there should be a code search repository available online. For the record it will live at http://searchco.de/ http://searchco.de/ I was in the middle of pushing out my second release when Google made its announcement so its looking a little worn at the moment.

dncrane 15y ago

This isn't exactly the same thing, but I launched a search engine for programmers (that is, it doesn't ignore special characters) a few weeks ago: http://symbolhound.com/ http://symbolhound.com/ It doesn't search code repositories, but rather tutorials and question/answer sites like stackoverflow. Right now stackoverflow dominates the results but that should change as we index more sites.

boyter 15y ago

Would you be interested in paying per search, paying for access or just general donations based on your experience? I ask as I am doing this but have not considered a business model for it as yet.

Groxx 15y ago
Micropayments suck, currently. If that ever changes, I'd be in favor of both per-search and access; until then, maybe a freemium setup? It'd be hard to hook programmers without letting them try it, and you can experiment with more computationally-expensive searches (regex, AST, etc) without letting random users tank your system. I wonder if you could even build a market off open-sourcing the engine, thus allowing people to improve it for you, and run a paid service that searches GitHub, Google, etc for results. Free accounts for contributors that fix bugs or provide speed / feature improvements? I dunno, just throwing ideas out while they're percolating, I haven't given them a whole lot of thought.
- boyter 15y ago
  Yes I don't like micro-payments myself either. Freemium is my current plan. I had also considered the GitHub model. I will be making portions free-software as the whole thing is built off it anyway. If nothing else I will be going free for quite a while as I believe that there should be a code search repository available online. For the record it will live at http://searchco.de/ http://searchco.de/ I was in the middle of pushing out my second release when Google made its announcement so its looking a little worn at the moment.