Posted September 19, 2009 by Nur in Plugins
 
 

Top 15+ Source Code Search Engines

Programmers spend 50% of their time just looking at source code. When trying to understand how a system is organized, they often must look at and across many files that make up the system. It is difficult to find code in large software systems of thousands of files coded in multiple programming languages. I complied a list of Coder Search Engine and hope now you can find code according to your requirement easily.

1. Google Code Search Lab

google-code-search

2. Black Duck Koders

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3. Codase: Searching million lines of code

codase

4. Code Fetch

code-fetch

5. Source Code Online

source-code-online

6. The Code Project

the-code-project

7. Byte My Code

Byte-My-Code

8. Snipplr: public source code repository

snipplr

9. Open Source: ankerl.com

opensource-ankerl

10. OpenSolaris Project: OpenGrok

opensolaris

11. Delphi Search Engine

delphi-search-engine

12. Java Examples in Open Source

java-examples

13. Java Developer Kits: Searches the API documentation of the JDK

Java-Developer-kit

14. Krugle.com

krugle

15. Mero Base: Component Finder

mero-base

16. gonzui: a source code search engine

17. DZone Snippets


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