[TriLUG] Google Code Search

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

Yeah, my first search was: 

void main()

I laughed. 

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Calloway
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Google Code Search

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> http://www.google.com/codesearch/advanced_code_search

This is funny. Regular Google only searches for full words and not
fragments.

I entered "MPI," one of my interests, in a search of Python software
beyond the MPI modules in SciPy I'm aware of.

I got back everything that had the word "compile" in it, with characters
"MPI" highlighted in the middle of the word. :)

Thus, rendering the huge number of results fairly useless.

However, it will search for 'punctuation' character sequences like "::" 
or "<<" which regular Google ignores.

Luckily, I enjoy life without braces, though. So this is not a biggy for
me. :)

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