Krugle is a
search engine
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that allows
computer programmers
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The professional titles ''software developer'' and ''software engineer'' are used for jobs that require a progr ...
and other developers to search
open source
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repositories to locate open source code, and quickly share the code with other programmers on the internet. It finished its
beta
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phase and went live on June 14, 2006.
The engine searches
Apache
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,
JavaDocs,
SourceForge
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, and Wikipedia, amongst other sources. Repositories can be browsed, as well as project overviews being available.
Plugins to assist user searches are available for
Mozilla Firefox
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and
Internet Explorer
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, as well as user tools such as bookmarking and tagging.
On February 17, 2009, it was announced that
Aragon Consulting Group would acquire the Krugle assets and technologies although the Krugle website would remain as a free resource.
See also
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Koders
Koders was a search engine for Open-source software, open source code. It enabled software developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects posted at hundreds of Open-source software, open source software repository, repo ...
*
Ohloh
Notes
External links
Wired Article about Krugle(February 2006)
Code search engines
Internet search engines
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