Google Launches Code Search for Programmers

Google Code Search, the new search service from Google, is now available for programmers to search publicly accessible source code.

The code includes support for 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.

The company has also released a number of general-purpose developer and open-source tools. The tools are aimed to help developers create compelling applications for their users.

The Code Search is yet another product that Google has lauched for developers in the past year, e.g. 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.