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Krugle: A Google for Coders

Posted by TimSlavin at March 6, 2006

"For most people, open source is a synonym for free software. But for programmers, open source is about sharing code, building on the work of others and not having to reinvent the wheel -- at least, that's the ideal. In practice, code reuse remains very low, because it's often too hard for programmers to find relevant bits of code for their applications.

A new search engine for programmers promises to alleviate that problem by making it easier to find and share code. That in turn could increase programmers' productivity and give a fresh boost to the open-source movement."

Krugle sounds like a neat idea, although you have to sign up to preview it, as of early March 2006. From Wired.