http://www.osnews.com/story/16074/Google_Launches_Search_Service_for_Computer_Code Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:39:20 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?168619 http://osnews.com/thread?168619 ... though I, like no doubt many others, immediately tried searching for the usual profanities in code comments and, surprisingly, variable names! Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JCooper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168624 http://osnews.com/thread?168624 Google may not be the first in this sector (see codefetch.com, koders.com, krugle.com...) but, as usual, it bring some serious momentum here.

More importantly, IMHO this means that there's:
1. a lot of code freely (?) available out there to justify this kind of effort,
2. an (estimated) big number of potential programmers who want to use/reuse it. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mellowiz) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168640 http://osnews.com/thread?168640 Excellent! BTW, here's the link: http://google.com/codesearch

Now if only we could get a special google search engine for explanations of cryptic error messages that doesn't turn up page after page of unanswered questions about that error message!
Edit: removed superfluous slash.Edited 2006-10-05 10:52 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KenJackson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168661 http://osnews.com/thread?168661 And here's the source code of a WinZIP keygen:
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=+keygen+name+serial+show:n7lzx83... Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Joe User) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168682 http://osnews.com/thread?168682 There's no Pascal or Delphi Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DjLizard) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168685 http://osnews.com/thread?168685 hehe
koffice-1.4.2/lib/kofficecore/koFilterChain.h

// This hack is only needed due to crappy Microsoft design and
// circular dependencies in their embedded files :} Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bit_Rapist) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168713 http://osnews.com/thread?168713 It's just what I always wanted. How did you know? And here I didn't get you a thing, how awful of me. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sphinx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168744 http://osnews.com/thread?168744 Others have definitely done this before, but Google brings two things I've yet to see:
1.) Enough power to actually be able to be productive in your searches.
2.) Search experts who can figure out how to search the code and get useful results. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ma_d) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168778 http://osnews.com/thread?168778 What an opportunity for Black Hats!!

Put some code on a searchable place. Claim it does X. Hide some code that does Y too!

Excellent.

This could be as big a fiasco as Google pre-fetching porn onto your work computers after innocuous searches. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (NotParker) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168801 http://osnews.com/thread?168801 Put some code on a searchable place. Claim it does X. Hide some code that does Y too!

How would this work exactly?
You are searching and viewing source code, its all right there for you to see.

Unless you regularly download and use source code that you absolutely do not understand, never take the time to learn and it somehow passes all of your QC and testing procedures.

I'd fare to guess you aren't going to stay in buesiness at that rate and the *bad* code is the least of your concerns. Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bit_Rapist) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168813 http://osnews.com/thread?168813 There were already problems with Google and porno-magazines, Google and scientologists, Google and belgian newspapers.

New bunch of problems is coming - published code with doubtfule license - like Sun's one or MS "shared" which are viral - you either get infected immediatelly looking at it or violate license itself.

I doubt't that Google search-bots will care everytime about this corporate idiocy Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fyysik) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?168814 http://osnews.com/thread?168814 While I don't agree with NotParker that black hats will use this to put intrusions in code hoping others will use it, I do think this could be relatively bad for web based applications. Simple search for "Where $_POST" with php as the language could result in some amazing SQL injection opportunities.

Then you know which project has them and all you have to do is find someone that utilizes that project (which isn't hard, you can do web servers for page names, etc).

http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=Where+%5C~... Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aesiamun) Comments