Google Code Search

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Google Code Search
Google Code Search.png
Developer(s) Google
Operating system Any (web based application)
Type Code search engine
Website code.google.com/codesearch

Google Code Search was a free beta product from Google which debuted in Google Labs on October 5, 2006 allowing web users to search for open-source code on the Internet. Google announced that Code Search was to be shut down along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.[1] The service remained online until March 2013,[2] where upon it now returns a 404.

Features included the ability to search using operators. These are lang:, package:, license: and file:.

The code available for searching was in various formats including tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip, CVS, Subversion, git and Mercurial repositories.

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Regular expression engine [edit]

The site allowed the use of regular expressions in queries, which is not offered by any other search engine for code.[citation needed] This makes it resemble grep, but over the world's public code. The methodology employed combines a trigram index with a custom-built, denial-of-service resistant regular expression engine.[3]

Google Code Search supported POSIX extended regular expression syntax, excluding back-references, collating elements, and collation classes.[4]

Supported languages [edit]

The list of officially supported languages was constantly changing. The following list is correct as of 31 December 2010 (2010-12-31):[5]

Languages not officially supported could be searched for using the file: operator to match the common file extensions for the language.

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