Krugle ships 2.0 version of code search engine
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Krugle shipped on Tuesday an upgrade of its enterprise code search appliance for software development teams that is designed to offer improved scalability and search accuracy.Krugle is also now offering prospective customers the ability to evaluate the product on VMware before purchasing it.Krugle Enterprise 2.0 is sold as an appliance and can be configured to work with a variety of software change management systems, including ClearCase, Perforce, Microsoft&#39;s Team Foundation Server, Subversion, and others, according to Krugle. It also can crawl flat-file systems and code archives, according to the company, based in Menlo Park, California.Results can be viewed through a Web browser, but Krugle also offers support for searching directly from the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment). There is an application programming interface for creating other integrations as well. &quot;We have a first-class integration with Eclipse, and the next cab off the ramp will be [Microsoft&#39;s] Visual Studio,&quot; said Matt Graney, senior director of product management.Michael Cot&#233;, an analyst with Redmonk, said Tuesday that it is important for software like Krugle to be tightly linked with a developer&#39;s core environment.&quot;If it can&#39;t be crammed into the IDE, the experience that&#39;s in front of the software developer every hour of the day, I think it won&#39;t get the face time it needs to be worth it,&quot; Cot&#233; said. &quot;As an example, project management software that doesn&#39;t have a touch-point in IDEs tends to only be looked at by managers, and then developers have no idea about the overall project status.&quot;However, it may in fact be easier to scan code results in a browser window, according to Graney. &quot;From a real-estate point of view, Eclipse is a busy sort of environment,&quot; he said.Users can use Krugle to search code repositories in a variety of ways, such as for a specific project, or solely for the comments that developers place with code upon check-in. The engine can also recognize various code features, such as function calls and class definitions.It supports more than 40 languages, according to the company. There is also some reporting capability built into the product, such as a &quot;heat map&quot; function that provides a snapshot of activity levels among various projects.&quot;We&#39;ve been really impressed with it,&quot; said Patrick Hendry, CEO of Thuridion, a software consulting company and early beta user of the 2.0 release. &quot;It definitely saves us time. We haven&#39;t sat down and quantified how much we&#39;re saving into dollars, but clearly that&#39;s happened.&quot;Hendry&#39;s company is aligned with Visual Studio, not Eclipse. It hasn&#39;t yet built an integration with Krugle, but may down the road if it becomes a paying customer, Hendry said. &quot;We&#39;ll probably take a look at that. It&#39;s not a must-have, but it would probably be nice to have.&quot;The Scotts Valley, California, company mostly creates software for publishers who then sell it, Hendry said. Thuridion has &quot;a large body of code&quot; at any given time -- some three million to four million lines of code, excluding comment documents, he said.Thuridion &quot;very briefly&quot; considered other vendors but felt Krugle returned better results, he said.Subscription pricing typically begins at about $25,000 per year and scales up depending on the size of the code base, the number of users and how often the code base is crawled.Krugle was formed in October 2005. Its competitors include Koders and Google. The company also runs a free site, www.krugle.org, which can be used to search more than two billion lines of open-source code. The krugle.org index can also be accessed through the enterprise product.
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Microsoft Corp. last week released a preview version of its new Internet search engine. It will be available in its final form early next year.
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Google has updated its Google Code Search site by adding greater coverage and improvements in ranking and access.
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Search engine company Vivisimo have launched the beta of their new Clusty search engine, and it&#39;s open to the public to try out.
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KDE developers are crafting a search engine for the desktop, but don't look for it just yet.
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Latest PEAR Releases:HTML_QuickForm_Livesearch 0.4.0MDB2_Schema 0.8.1PHP_Archive 0.11.3Text_CAPTCHA 0.3.1
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(InfoWorld) - Krugle aspires to be the Google of software code search, even referring to itself as a verb. And recently, Krugle has started to become the go-to search site for open-source developers, partnering with key websites, including SourceForge.net, the leading repository for open-source software projects, to embed Krugle search. Krugle also announced a similar partnership with CollabNet, a community of 1 million developers. Cofounder and CTO Ken Krugler says Krugle soothes a pain point for developers: They spend 25 percent or more of their time searching for lines of code to perform certain functions that may already exist. There's no sense in writing code that's already been written, says Krugler. How does Krugle simplify code search on SourceForge? Developers typically visit SourceForge to find a project similar to the one they're doing. But they end up having to download the whole project. Krugle lets them search through the project to see if it fits the bill without downloading it entirely. Krugle gives software developers one thing they need most, time, says John Andrews, CEO of Evans Data, a research firm. "If you could shave 10 percent of that [search] time off, that is a huge productivity improvement either in cost savings, revenue generation, or just spare time," Andrews says. Google is still the first stop for many open-source developers, but as the volume of open-source code grows, as companies use more open source for development internally, and as more software companies open their previously proprietary code, Google may not be able to keep up, says Andrews. Krugle's next venture will be search for open-source development within enterprises. An enterprise product currently in beta is slated for general release in the second half of 2007.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has inadvertently given online attackers a new tool. The company'sÂ new source-code search engine, unveiled Thursday as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information, and even proprietary code that shouldn't have been posted to the Internet in the first place, security experts said Friday. UnlikeÂ Google's main Web search engine,Â Google Code Search peeks into the actual lines of code whenever it finds source-code files on the Internet. This will make it easier for developers to search source code directly and dig up open-source tools they may not have known about, but it has a drawback. "The downside is that you could also use that kind of search to look for things that are vulnerable and then guess who might have used that code snippet and then just fire away at it," said Mike Armistead, vice president of products with source-code analysis provider Fortify Software Inc. Attackers could also search code for vulnerabilities in password mechanisms, or to search for phrases within software such as "this file contains proprietary," possibly unearthing source code that should never have been posted to the Internet. Security experts say that the security implications of Google Code Search are noteworthy, if not earth-shattering. Skilled hackers may already be able to do this type of search with Google's Web search engine, but Code Search is "another tool that makes it a tad easier for the attacker," said Johnny Long, a security researcher with Computer Sciences Corp, in an e-mail interview. For its part, Google did not have much to say about possible misuse of its new product. "Google recommends developers use generally accepted good coding practices including understanding the implications of the code they implement and testing appropriately," the company said in a statement. Google has never said much about the steps it takes to cut down on this kind of misuse of its search engine, though the issue comes up from time to time.Â In July, Websense Inc. used a little know binary search capability within Google Inc.'s search engine to look for malware on the Internet. While Google Code Search will probably not have much of an effect on popular open-source projects, which are already heavily scrutinized, it could help ferret out vulnerabilities in lesser known pieces of code, according to Lev Toger, a software developer with Beyond Security Ltd. "Using Google's code search, it's much easier to find interesting code portions," he said via e-mail. "If your task is to find vulnerability in some random code, this filtering can save you a lot of time. " Â
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Krugle search engine gaining popularity as a key tool for developers looking for open-source code.
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(InfoWorld) - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine that he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. The project is being run through Wikia Inc., a for-profit company founded by Wales that seeks to use a similar model to the Wikipedia community-written and edited encyclopedia. He hopes to provide the tools and technology to allow programmers across the Internet to collaborate on the development and testing of a search engine and make the results freely available. "The essential core principles are that I think search is now a fundamental part of the infrastructure of the Internet and it's really fundamental to society as a whole and therefore as citizens of the world we should be concerned about it being a secretive black box," he said. Efforts to create open search engines aren't new but one of the stumbling blocks they face is a difficulty in running large-scale tests of the search algorithm, said Wales. The algorithm is the code that sits at the heart of the search engine and is responsible for its accuracy or lack thereof. "To create a full-scale crawling spider of the Web actually requires a great deal of investment in hardware," he said. Wikia is planning to provide resources to enable full-scale crawling of the World Wide Web so the software can be fully tested and tuned. The project is still in the planning stages and Wales expects that the first test version due this year will help programmers spot bugs that occur with real-world usage and speed up the development process. "Probably what we'll do is launch something in the fourth quarter of this year with a really big warning 'It sucks, we know it sucks, it's experimental, don't panic. This is just an experiment to show what could be and now we're going to start working to see how we could make it better'," he said. Already the project is attracting attention, not just from engineers who want to lend a hand but from companies that are already offering search engines. "We are getting a lot of interest from second-tier search players who are really interested in some of the alternatives that might be available. If you're not one of the top three or four you've got to really wonder how could you ever catch up with Google and their billions of dollars. This provides kind of a level playing field where lots of people can contribute," said Wales. Wales cites a story he heard about research done on search results. In the study users were presented with results from Google and Yahoo but with the brand names switched, so the Google name was above the Yahoo results and vice versa. In most cases users picked the Google-branded results as better, he said. "To me this shows a great vulnerability if Google is only competing on brand image," said Wales. "If good quality search results are becoming a commodity, if the problem of search is in some sense solved then if I can make that free it really changes the structure of competition on the Internet." "We'll give away all the technology, all the data. Release everything under a free license because in my view the idea has been very solidly proven wrong by Wikipedia that in order to out-compete on the Internet you need to have a walled garden of special content no one else has. Wikipedia gives everything away. You can download the database and put up a clone of Wikipedia tomorrow. All that means is that more people find out about the brand, more people drive traffic back," he said. Even if multiple competitors spring up using the Wikia search engine he's hopeful the Wikia site can still grab a 2 percent or 3 percent share of the search market and so would become "a pretty decent little business." But just how successful the search engine is will depend on more than just its accuracy. The search algorithm is the most closely guarded secret of companies like Google because it determines how high a particular site is ranked. If the algorithm is public then it would mean site owners could precisely tune their sites for high rankings and that's sure to attract the attention of spammers. Wales hopes a community effort will result in a black list of abusers to keep the results clean. "If published algorithms make it too easy for spammers to game the system then we've got a real problem and my whole idea won't work," he said.
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Revamped search engine allows users to store and share results.
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Google launched a specialized search engine designed to find software source code publicly available on the Web.
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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A new search engine, slated to be completed by the end of 2007, uses natural language techniques to better interpret the meaning of the information a user is seeking, and thus provide more relevant results.
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Blog: A first look at Searchles: a new web app that seeks to combine social networking with web search functionalities.
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Google late Wednesday rolled out a beta search tool designed for academics and other researchers digging through peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, and theses.
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Travis Swicegood is teasing us with some output from a script in his latest blog post:   So my free time of late (what there is of it) has been spent on a project that's getting really close to v0.1 release. In other words, its first functional release. If you've ever run a test using the PEAR installer or know what a .phpt file looks like, you might be able to guess what I've been up.   Keep an eye on his blog for more information on his "secret project".