After winning the iPod (which has been great to have for the gym) I had a number of conversations with Steve Larsen, Mel Badgett and many others at Krugle, who I think have a really solid team. One of the questions I asked them was, since this was around the time that Google Code Hosting debuted, what if the Big G steps into this space as an expansion of that project?
Their feeling, which was based on experience as well as conversations with staff at Google (and other big search engines), was that this niche is too small to be interesting. Except that it isn’t: Google Launches Code Search. From the linked article:
“The two ways that source code lives on the Internet is in archives, things like Zip files, gzip, etc. And then in software-control repositories like SourceForge.net, Google’s code hosting, and other places,” Google product manager Tom Stocky told internetnews.com. “We’ll be crawling all of that.”
I sure hope this isn’t as big a disruption as it looks like for the Kruglers and similarly-focused startup Koders. Ken Krugler writes a pretty positive response on their blog.
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