Google Code Search

Montgomerie

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100500053.html

Found this on a news site earlier..interesting read. Do you think that it will be effective for programmers? Has anybody here used it yet or other code search engines like it?

http://www.google.com/codesearch

I_Mr_Euphony

I haven't used it much yet, I only really discovered it a day or so ago, but apart from searching for code to help you out it also has a much worse use.

For example, wordpress login information is normally stored in a php file thats not readable from the outside world but if you do this......

http://www.google.com/codesearch?as_q=username&as_filename=wp-config.php

Hey presto your in...

Not cool google....

Mutant_Fruit

I_Mr_Euphony wrote:

For example, wordpress login information is normally stored in a php file thats not readable from the outside world but if you do this......

Look carefully at what you actually found... they all look like installation packages. None of those are live sites.

Adam

Yup, thats exactly what they are.

Anybody used this, is it any good?

seamus

Mutant_Fruit wrote:

Look carefully at what you actually found... they all look like installation packages. None of those are live sites.

Some of them look like live sites where they were tested offline and the files uploaded as a tar/gzip.

Not really Google's fault if these guys left their code readable.

Hobbes

LOL.. search for "Internal use only" and add company name of choice. Legal departments are going to have kittens.

Adam

Am I missing something? Suggested company to add?

Hobbes

Pick a company and you go looking for code that should never be in the index. Its a bit like the Google search for government documents. You can find the occasional not for public consumption documents there too.

Of course you probably need to know the terminology of company in question.

pH

Indeed, try "not for public release" in regular Google, you get 88,000 results.

pH

Turns out that PHP is the most expletive filled language!

http://tinyurl.com/jj9rl

Now for theories - does writing PHP make you curse? or are PHP programmers just a coarser bunch - the sailors of the coding world?