# Feeling a little (sc)raped? -- Google CodeSearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 5, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feeling-a-little-sc-raped-google-codesearch/71114 "2006-10-05T13:10:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feeling-a-little-sc-raped-google-codesearch/71114/1 "2006-10-05T13:10:31Z")
How do others feel about this Google CodeSearch? [http://www.google.com/codesearch](http://www.google.com/codesearch) T. ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feeling-a-little-sc-raped-google-codesearch/71114/2 "2006-10-05T13:20:33Z")
Well it would seem that the Perl and Ruby code I wrote is indexed. I wonder what has happened to Python stuff? The code was made public, it is on public archives (they seem to have scraped raa and cpan), so I see no problem with this. I wonder if they’ll grab code off user sites as my C stuff is not in any archive. Looks like it might be useful there are times when searching for an error message on google just leaves me with 1,000s of messages about the error message and what I wanted was the code that generated it. ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feeling-a-little-sc-raped-google-codesearch/71114/3 "2006-10-05T13:38:35Z")
On 10/5/06, Trans [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > How do others feel about this Google CodeSearch? > > [http://www.google.com/codesearch](http://www.google.com/codesearch) This is the purpose of open source - it’s openly available! Let the information FLOW FREE! ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feeling-a-little-sc-raped-google-codesearch/71114/4 "2006-10-05T13:44:36Z")
On 05/10/06, Trans [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > How do others feel about this Google CodeSearch? I think it’s a great idea. A specialised search engine indexing publicly-available source code - what’s not to like? I’m not sure if I’m going to end up using it - I’ll see in time - but I’m glad it’s there. Paul. ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feeling-a-little-sc-raped-google-codesearch/71114/5 "2006-10-05T15:58:53Z")
> But it’s not like the idea is new, is it? Does that matter? Martin ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feeling-a-little-sc-raped-google-codesearch/71114/6 "2006-10-05T15:52:53Z")
“Paul B.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > On 05/10/06, Trans [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > How do others feel about this Google CodeSearch? > > I think it’s a great idea. A specialised search engine indexing > publicly-available source code - what’s not to like? But it’s not like the idea is new, is it? ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feeling-a-little-sc-raped-google-codesearch/71114/7 "2006-10-05T18:09:49Z")
Its a good idea. However I am not sure about its quality. Often when I use google, I just find 80% crap, or unrelated, even though I do search for specific topics. While on the other hand, sometimes blogs and similar do yield much better information (praise \_why as well by the way!) ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feeling-a-little-sc-raped-google-codesearch/71114/8 "2006-10-05T16:04:54Z")
On 05/10/06, Christian N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > But it’s not like the idea is new, is it? Indeed. But nor was the search engine. Choice is good, and Google CodeSearch has some nice features I haven’t seen elsewhere, like regular expressions and search by licence. Paul.