Software:Google Code Search
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Type of site | Search engine |
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| Available in | All languages |
| Owner | |
| Website | www.google.com/codesearch |
| Launched | October 5, 2006 |
| Current status | Discontinued as of 15 January 2012 |
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. Features included the ability to search using operators, namely 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.
Google Code Search covered many open-source projects, and as such is different from the "Code Search for Google Open source projects" that was released afterwards.[1][2]
Regular expression engine
The site allowed the use of regular expressions in queries, which at that time was 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, sometimes called trigram search, combines a trigram index with a custom-built, denial-of-service resistant regular expression engine.[3]
In March 2010, the code of RE2, the regular expression engine used in Google Code Search, was made open source.[4]
Google Code Search supported POSIX extended regular expression syntax, excluding back-references, collating elements, and collation classes.
Languages not officially supported could be searched for using the file: operator to match the common file extensions for the language.
Discontinuation
In October 2011, Google announced that Code Search was to be shut down along with the Code Search API.[5] The service remained online until March 2013,[6] and it now returns a 404.
In January 2012, Russ Cox published an overview of history and the technical aspects of the tool, and open-sourced a basic implementation of a similar functionality as a set of standalone programs that can run fast indexed regular expression searches over local code.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ "Code Search for Google open source projects". https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/04/code-search-for-google-open-source.html.
- ↑ "Google Open Source". https://cs.opensource.google/.
- ↑ Russ Cox (January 2012). "Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (or: How Google Code Search Worked)". http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html.
- ↑ "RE2: a principled approach to regular expression matching". https://opensource.googleblog.com/2010/03/re2-principled-approach-to-regular.html.
- ↑ Horowitz, Bradley (2011-10-14). "Official Blog: A fall sweep". Googleblog.blogspot.com. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-sweep.html. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
- ↑ "Replacement for Google Code Search?". https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7778034/replacement-for-google-code-search.
- ↑ on GitHub
External links
- Cindex/Csearch - command-line file search tool, based on ideas from GCS
- Version of Code Search, limited to the Chromium project
- android source code search
- chrome source code search
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