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Friday, October 6, 2006; 07:00 AM
Google launched Google Code Search, which allows programmers to search publicly accessible source code. It is available at http://www.google.com/codesearch/.
The new service supports precise searches using regular expressions, restricts by language, license, or filename with advanced operators and a search index that includes billions of lines of code. Code Search crawls and indexes publicly hosted archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip) and CVS and Subversion repositories, making them searchable in one place.
"The inspiration for Code Search came from a tool we built to quickly search the internal Google code base. This internal search service was used so much that it became clear we should build something for other programmers to use as well," says Google Code Blogger Eric Case.
During the past year Google has launched a number of developer-oriented tools, including Google Maps API v2, Google Calendar API, Google Web Toolkit, Google AJAX Search API, Google Checkout API, project hosting on Google Code, Google Base API, and Google Gadgets for Your Page.
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