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Today, Google Labs released a beta for a new search service targeted at computer programmers; Google Code Search.  This new service will crawl the vast stores of publicly available code (mostly open source) to provide programmers with an easily searchable index of code to help find solutions to various programming tasks.

Google expects this new search tool to be mostly used by students trying to learn complex programming languages, while being an occasional resource to more season and serious coders.

While the code being indexed is open source, and reuse is technically allowed, GNU Public License issues could arise, discouraging professional use within non-open source projects.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hm... a little DX widget to preset code searches might be useful. I'll have to see what I can cook up when I have less work to do.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Unfortunately, vbscript is not one of the languages Google Code Search searches for. Javascript, yes, vbscript, nay. (At least as far as I can tell. See the advanced mode: WWW Link
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hope it will search PHP as that is currently the programming I am doing