Although not available yet, this will be a very useful tool. The official beta launch will be in March. There are several similar sites out there such as Koders, but nothing that will do quite what krugle boasts:

krugle’s role

While the development world has changed, the tools that developers use haven’t kept up. Developers spend from 20-25 percent of their time looking for code and code related information – a frustrating situation for programmers, and an expensive problem for companies.

Current search engines are okay for finding web pages, but they don’t crawl or find source code, whether in open repositories or within source code control systems (SCCS). They also don’t leverage the inherent structure of code to support the types of searches programmers need.

krugle vision

Krugle answers the need for a single place to find relevant code and critical technical information. By making it easy for anyone to find, elevate and communicate, Krugle fills a critical gap in todays technology rich environment.

Finding Code: Finding, evaluating and downloading the right code is a common developer task that consumes massive amounts of developer time. “This process has difficulties because of the way software projects and components are currently accessed on the Internet”, notes Ken Krugler, Krugle’s co-founder and CTO. ”While current search engines are OK at finding Web pages, they don’t crawl source code repositories, archives or knowledge bases, and they don’t leverage the inherent structure of code to support the types of searches programmers need”.

Finding Answers: Developers sift through many separate pieces of information (project information, documentation, license information, tips & hints, user reviews, legal information) must be considered when making decisions on what code to use. Krugle delivers the precise information a programmer needs to solve their immediate problem.

Beyond Search: Krugle also improves communication between programmers by allowing them to add their commentary in a layer that floats above the source code. In addition, Krugle allows programmers to permanently tag code, and sets of search results, and easily share them with their colleagues.

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