Krugle the next Google?

Krugle is a new search engine coming to the web in early March 2006. The premise behind the launch is that the open source community has come of age, with robust open source applications like Linux, MySQL, PHP and many others to numerous to mention, there is a need for developers and programmers to find working code, instead of having to start from scratch.

Krugle will be a search engine that is designed to fill that need. Krugle supports code search by crawling, parsing and indexing code found in all open source repositories, as well as code that exists in archives, mailing lists, blogs, and web pages. The index will cover around 100 million pages of what company co-founder Ken Krugler terms the "technical web" -- high-quality technical pages for professional programmers. This winds up being a window on all the open-source code in the world," said Krugler, who estimates the Krugle index will contain between 3 and 5 terabytes of code by the time the engine launches in March. A PHP developer could search for a website-registration system written in PHP simply by typing "PHP registration system", and the search will deliver code samples to get that accomplished. Info World has an article on Krugle here.

It sounds very promising, let’s see if it delivers. Something I did notice about their web site that surprised me, if you go under the “news” section and click to the article links, you will be taken to that article and leave the Krugle sight. Web design 101, when developing a site that sells a product or services, never have a link from your site leave your site, always open the link into a target _blank window. Tisk , tisk ,tisk Krugle.

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