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February 14, 2007
You'll notice a nice new feature on the YDN web site here today: code search.
We are partnering with a really cool startup called Krugle to offer this. The press release says it all:
"The Yahoo! Developer Network can now take advantage of Krugle's code search engine and interface to allow developers working with Yahoo! APIs and data to find, save, and share code written in six languages: ActionScript, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, and Ruby."
Yes, this is the company that Robert Scoble was recently glowing about:
"I keep hearing about Krugle from developers. They tell me it rocks for looking up stuff. Need shopping cart code? Search for it on Krugle."
We agree. Wired also ran a piece on Krugle last year:
"Krugle indexes programming code and documentation from open-source repositories like SourceForge and includes corporate sites for programmers like the Sun Developer Network. The index will cover around 100 million pages of what company founder Ken Krugler terms the "technical web" -- high-quality technical pages for professional programmers."
We hope you like it, though we're sure there are things we could improve. For example, as of launch time, most of the Yahoo! documentation and code is still missing from the index. What else needs improvement? Please submit suggestions, comment here on the blog below, or check out the Krugle blog.
Matt McAlister
Posted at February 14, 2007 8:05 AM
I don't get it. Yahoo is supposed to be a search engine. Why did you need to hire a 3rd party search engine to handle code search on your OWN site?
Posted by: Dillon Sanders at February 14, 2007 5:04 PM
My guess? Ease and speed of implementation. Sometimes it makes more sense to partner with someone who does something really well rather than try to go it alone.
Posted by: Craig Newkirk at February 14, 2007 6:53 PM
We really liked the service Krugle offers and thought that web developers would appreciate having access to it from the YDN web site. Let us know if you like it or see ways we could improve it, Dillon.
Posted by: Matt McAlister at February 16, 2007 9:43 AM
Very developer intuitive. I like it.
Posted by: Shawn at February 16, 2007 2:37 PM
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