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searchcode Reviews

A source code search engine

Social recommendations and mentions

We have tracked the following product recommendations or mentions on Reddit and HackerNews. They can help you see what people think about searchcode and what they use it for.
  • What is the best website that you have seen that not many people know about?
    SearchCode lets you search for real world examples of different API libraries and functions and stuff. - Source: Reddit / 2 months ago
  • Building a custom code search index in Go for searchcode.com
    Great read, but a basic search yields zero results: https://searchcode.com/?q=kong.New+lang%3Ago Same search on GitHub: https://github.com/search?type=code&q=kong.New. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • free-for.dev
    Searchcode.com — Comprehensive text-based code search, free for Open Source. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago
  • Show HN: Feep search, an independent search engine for programmers
    - Brave (recently started its own index but often falls back on Google's) Love to see projects like Marginalia and now this. These projects also make meta search engines like Searx[0] that much more powerful. Anyways since I'm in the business of listing out relevant projects, other code-centered search engines you might wanna check out are searchcode.com[1], codesearch.ai[2], symbolhound[3], and publicwww.com[4]... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
  • Google Search Is Falling Behind, Especially in Code, Cooking and Travel
    IMHO, the options you listed still miss the point. When I do a code-related search, most often I'm looking for a documentation entry. So, for example, if I search for "python string replace", Google returns me a bunch of crappy pages. I can fix it with "site:python.org string replace". SearchCode does a terrible job [1]. So does Public WWW [2]. Now, Google nails with the first result, pointing to Python's built-in... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago
  • Search engines for hackers
    Https://searchcode.com/ - search thru 75 billion lines of code from 40 million projects. - Source: Reddit / about 1 year ago
  • Searx: Moving Away from DuckDuckGo
    Also https://searchcode.com/ was posted on a HN thread about niche search engines a couple days ago. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • How taboo is it to leave under a year?
    Yeah exactly, with time and experience you learn things like searching code snippets here https://searchcode.com/, how to read documentation properly, how do do a better job than a college student of "building your network.". - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • C++ STL Alg Popularity
    I have not used it much myself, but there is this: searchcode. - Source: Reddit / over 1 year ago
  • Free for dev - list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
    Searchcode.com — Comprehensive text-based code search, free for Open Source. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

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