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Ask HN: Would anyone be interested in a search engine specifically for code?

5 pointsby zpoleyover 14 years ago
I often use google to find source code documentation like method signatures, identifier spellings, or usage notes. This results in:<p>1) doing a google search 2) selecting the page to go to 3) finding the content on that page.<p>The goal is to cut the steps down to just a search that returns example method signatures or identifiers matching the search query with the options to click through to the page for more information. It would also be a goal to selectively index well made sites and cull all the junk that google returns.<p>It's very basic right now and doesn't have a great deal of content indexed, and is not fast, but I'm curious if this would be useful to anyone else, or what other features might make it more useful, or if everyone is just happy using google, or their IDE.<p>Here are some example queries that the site has results indexed for:<p>* "python glob"<p>* "jquery ajax request"<p>* "c printf"<p>* "html dt"<p>The url is http://codeandtools.com.<p>There are VIM style shortcut keys for navigating results. j/k - up/down, i - expand info section, v - open selected in new tab, / - new search.<p>I've been using it mostly in Chrome.<p>Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thanks HN!

4 comments

drKarlover 14 years ago
What about<p><a href="http://www.google.com/codesearch" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/codesearch</a>
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stephenouover 14 years ago
I'd really love Google to accept characters like &#60; or } in their normal search query. Makes it convenient for code snippet search.
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zpoleyover 14 years ago
clickable: <a href="http://codeandtools.com" rel="nofollow">http://codeandtools.com</a>
mgkimsalover 14 years ago
How does it compare to krugle?