Paul Krill
Editor at Large

Krugle adds code search to CollabNet

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Mar 14, 20071 min

Krugle is announcing on Wednesday a partnership with CollabNet to provide code search capabilities to developers on the CollabNet platform and CollabNet Subversion. Code search functionality will be made available on CollabNet customers' development sites, enabling them to search for code without leaving their CollabNet environment. CollabNet provides a collaborative software development platform; the company al

Krugle is announcing on Wednesday a partnership with CollabNet to provide code search capabilities to developers on the CollabNet platform and CollabNet Subversion.

Code search functionality will be made available on CollabNet customers’ development sites, enabling them to search for code without leaving their CollabNet environment. CollabNet provides a collaborative software development platform; the company also sponsors the Subversion open source project for version control.

Founded in 2005 around the idea of contextual search, Krugle crawls, parses and indexes code found in public and partner repositories. Developers can find code and related technical and licensing information to evaluate and use the code.

With Krugle tools, developers can search an index of more than 1.5 billion lines of code, more than 400 million Web pages and more than 100,000 projects.

The arrangement with CollabNet follows last month’s addition of 6.5 million lines of code from Microsoft’s shared and open source initiatives to Krugle’s index. Also, Krugle in February announced code-searching plans for the Yahoo Developer Network.

Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorld’s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a “Best Technology News Coverage” award from IDG.

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