Krugle Code Search

Why reinvent the wheel?

The open source community is about sharing; its about building on the work of others, streamlining development and increasing productivity.

This sounds great and looks good on paper but doesn't always work so well in practice. Most often programmers can't find exactly what they need. The result is that they end up spending the time and effort to write relevant code when there may already be open source code available.

A Google for Programmers

A new search engine, called Krugle (Kroo-gul), endeavors to make it easier for programmers to locate and share source code.

Scheduled to launch in March 2006, Krugle will index programming code and documentation from several, popular open source repositories. The index will cover about 100 million pages of high-quality technical content.

The Krugle Workspace

Krugle will allow developers to annotate code and documentation, create personal bookmarks and save search results in a custom workspace. These saved workspaces are given unique URLs, which means that developers can ship a set of annotated code to a co-worker by [simply] e-mailing a link.

Business Model

Krugle will generate revenue from advertising on its public search engine. The company also plans to offer an enterprise edition to facilitate code-sharing within companies.

Please Note:

Krugle is not affiliated with Google.