[sqs]

I made a web site that catalogues how various companies/projects use code search:

https://codesearchguide.org/story/google

https://codesearchguide.org/story/facebook

https://codesearchguide.org/story/brave

https://codesearchguide.org/story/chromium-android

https://codesearchguide.org/story/linux

https://codesearchguide.org/story/yelp

https://codesearchguide.org/story/stripe

The Google one in particular has a great breakdown of how they use code search by use case (examples, exploration, etc.).

And here are a bunch of known code search tools: https://codesearchguide.org/tools

(Disclaimer: I am the Sourcegraph CEO and our core product is code search.)

[wizwit999]

Interesting, Amazon had a meh internal code search, much better than current GitHub tho.

[sqs]

Would you (or anyone else) be willing to write up a page for that site to document what Amazon's internal code search is like (from publicly available sources)?

[wizwit999]

Im not sure much is public info. I'm not there anymore but perhaps someone who is can.

Its called GitFarm and had a web UI where you could search with a few different operators, like exact word, path, file extension. They kinda half implemented searching by class name just for Java too. Another thing, you couldn't add a NOT, or exclude certain filepaths, which was annoying especially when ppl would accidentally commit node_modules. Overall, it wasn't too bad buy feels like it had kinda stagnated recently (KTLO).