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 Friday, October 06, 2006
Google Code Search

Oct 3, 2006 Google launched a new search engine geared towards the needs of programmers.

"Searchers can seek out specific programming terms or computer languages and dive deep into compressed code to locate specific features. Users also can narrow a search to find software code based on specific licensing requirements, which is a big deal in warding off future patent litigation." (Reuters)

A very useful tool for geeks. "Code search here" Though as with anything there is clearly a downside.

Several software programmers say Google Code Search appears to answer some of the basic nightmares of building software by creating a single place where one can trawl through all the publicly available computer code in the world. Though the downside is that it might be viewed by some as a hackers paradise as the focus is moving off server attacts and toward applications both desktop and web. Below is a couple quotes from the discussions link.

Code Search seems to a hackers wet dream.
Try - just for fun - some searches on terms like "username =" or
"password =".

Besides the fact that a lot of people apperantly still hardcode
usernames and passwords in their webapps, a hacker gets super de luxe
info about used databases, database-connections, server-id's and
database structures.

Normally there is some protection because the actual source of pages
with server side scripting is hidden because they are executed on the
server an return only straight HTML.

The deciding question is - of course - what Google exactly means with
the term "publicly accessible source code". What does this mean
exactly?

Does this include code pages behind live websites?

Google states that this: "We're crawling as much publicly accessible
source code as we can find, including archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2,
.tar, and .zip), CVS repositories and Subversion repositories."

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10/6/2006 6:23:25 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
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