[xroche]

RIP Google Code Search, aka the best code search ever. No credible competitor has yet emerged, and this is a real loss for all programmers: no more easy searching for sample code in obscure WIN32 Api, easy searching for arch-specific POSIX implementation details used by various open source projects, global error message grepping, and countless other little things which are not incredibly painful and difficult. I am still puzzled that we suffered such a tremendous regression.

[evmar]

Debian code search is the closest replacement I've found, though it doesn't really compare:

https://codesearch.debian.net/

[dyoo1979]

SourceGraph might be interesting to look at. https://sourcegraph.com/

[xxgreg]

I heard rumours that it was shut down because of license reasons. i.e. displaying the code to a user was making a copy in a legal sense, this has differing implications depending on the original software license.

[raldi]

You don't think github is all that and more?

[xroche]

Github search is fine, do not get me wrong. But this is like telling someone lamenting on the hypothetical end of Google search: "Just use the search function in Facebook, you don't need more"

[userbinator]

GitHub's search doesn't support regular expressions.

(I'm aware you can clone the repo and search it locally, but that somewhat defeats the point - especially for large projects.)

[Kluny]

I'm pretty sure Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, and probably a lot of other github employees, lurk around here... if you harp on it enough they'll probably make it happen.

[maaku]

What do Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood have to do with Github?

[gnufied]

My primary use of Google Code search was, searching for this rare function (like a POSIX one) whose man page I can't understand and is largely undocumented elsewhere. I would often try to understand how other projects are using this function via internet-wide code search. :D

While Github is great, I think it still hosts only a small fraction of all the code that is public.

[cbr]

Github is a great alternative for Google Code.

Nothing currently out there is as good as Google Code Search was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search

[tedunangst]

Can you search github with a regex?

[jasonlotito]

We use github enterprise and I've only heard complaints about its search capabilities.