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Google Code shut down last new year. I have been missing it a lot. It was a search engine for code repositories and tarballs and had a lot of stuff indexed. It

by exDM69 14y ago

Google Code shut down last new year. I have been missing it a lot. It was a search engine for code repositories and tarballs and had a lot of stuff indexed. It had a nice Thompson regular expression search and an ability to filter by metadata like file name or programming language. Google Code was very useful at giving me examples of how to do a certain thing. I've used it to search and compare different methods for matrix inversion, sought for examples on using certain API calls or samples of using a certain assembly intrinsic function. GitHub's code search can do some of this but it's not a very good replacement. Has anyone got suggestions on good search engines for code?

emmelaich 14y ago
Perhaps not maintained, but still around: http://code.google.com/codesearch http://code.google.com/codesearch For other hints, search for older articles on this topic on HN.
- exDM69 14y ago
  Finding this almost made my day, but not quite. It searches only code hosted at googlecode.com. The discontinued tool searched other hosting sites (sourceforge, github, etc) as well as tarballs found on the web. The search tool itself has improved, though.