Google on Thursday is launching Google Code Search, which enables developers to search publicly available source code. The application searches repositories such as Subversion and CVS and crawls the Web for code. "We're bringing over billions of lines of code," said Tom Stocky, Google product manager for the Code Search application. With the application, Google is providing a tool for developers looking to find Google on Thursday is launching Google Code Search, which enables developers to search publicly available source code. The application searches repositories such as Subversion and CVS and crawls the Web for code. “We’re bringing over billions of lines of code,” said Tom Stocky, Google product manager for the Code Search application. With the application, Google is providing a tool for developers looking to find specific code, sample calls or function definitions. “They can now search for it in one place,” Stocky said. “Usually, the first thing a programmer does when they’re going to build apps is they search over existing code, which is pretty hard to do today,” Stocky said. The application is available at google.com/codesearch. Technology Industry