Mon 20 Feb 2006
New Search Engine for Programmers
Posted by Texx Smith under Internet , Search Engine Optimization , Web Design
A new search engine called Krugle, indexes programming code and documentation from open-source repositories like SourceForge and includes corporate sites for programmers like the Sun Developer Network. When it lauches next month, it will make accessible 100 million pages of high-quality technical pages for professional programmers. The founder opf Krugle, Ken Krugler, calls this the “technical web.”
Ken Krugle estimates the Krugle index will contain between 3 and 5 terabytes of code by the time the engine launches.
Krugle.com won’t be the first code-based search engine. Koders and Codefetch have also entered this market but Mr. Krugle says allowing developers to annotate code and documentation, create bookmarks and save collections of search results in a tabbed workspace will seperate his search engine from the others. Intelligence that can tell which programming language the code is written in and saved workspaces have unique URLs, so developers can send an entire collection of annotated code to a co-worker just by e-mailing a link are other features that should make this search engine a must for all web designers and developers.
