Koders was a
search engine
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for
open source
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code. It enabled
software developer
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s to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects posted at hundreds of
open source
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repositories.
On April 28, 2008, it was announced that Black Duck Software would acquire the Koders assets and technologies although the Koders website will remain as a free resource.
On May 19, 2009, Black Duck Software announced that projects from the
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washi ...
CodePlex
CodePlex was a forge website by Microsoft. While it was active, it allowed shared development of open-source software.
Its features included wiki pages, source control based on Mercurial, TFVC, Subversion or Git, discussion forums, issue ...
open source project hosting site will now be fed automatically into Black Duck’s open source KnowledgeBase repository. The projects also will be searchable through Black Duck’s Koders.com.
Koders announced on September 9, 2009 that their search engine now exceed 2.4 billion lines of code; a 210% increase since April 2008.
Black Duck Software announced on October 25, 2012 the merge of Koders with
Ohloh Code.
Plug-ins
In addition to their web-based search engine, Koders provided a plug-in for the IDE
Eclipse
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and an add-in for
Microsoft Visual Studio
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. A plug-in was also included within
Code::Blocks.
See also
* Black Duck Software
*
Codase
*
Google Code Search
Google Code Search was a free beta product from Google which debuted in Google Labs on October 5, 2006, allowing web users to search for open-source code on the Internet. Features included the ability to search using operators, namely , , , and ...
*
Krugle Krugle delivers continuously updated, federated access to all of the code and technical information in the enterprise. Krugle search helps an organization pinpoint critical code patterns and application issues - immediately and at massive scale.
K ...
*
Open Hub
References
External links
* , redirects to Open Hub
*
Black Duck Software
Code search engines
Defunct websites
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