When I first came to Google,
I was curious (and anxious) to learn what project I'd be working on. I was pleasantly
surprised to find out that I'd be helping build Google Code Search. I felt like a penguin
assigned to work on Herring Search -- even more so because the project involved searching with
regular expressions, a non-trivial problem to get right. We launched Code Search last October,
enabling search over billions of lines of public source code. Today we made some updates to
Code Search that will hopefully make it even easier to find the code you're looking for.
First, we've expanded our crawl to include not just complete archives and
repositories, but individual code files and sample code snippets from webpages as well. Now
when you search for things like [LFractalCanvas] or
[nph-refresh],
you'll have a better chance of finding what you want. Second, we've made a few ranking
adjustments, such as putting class and function definitions closer to the top for a lot of
searches. Lastly, Code Search is now available in domains outside the United States, from my
home country of Poland, to Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Russia, and Spain, to name a few.
We hope you'll continue giving us feedback on
ways to improve Code Search. There's a lot of code out on the web, and we've still got a lot
of work left to make it all accessible and useful for developers everywhere.
