code search

Sourcegraph raises $125M Series D on $2.6B valuation for universal code search tool

Sourcegraph, a late-stage startup that wants to bring the power of search to code, announced a $125 million Series D investment today on a $2.625 billion valuation, a 3x growth from its previous valua

GitHub launches a mobile app, smarter notifications and improved code search

At its annual Universe conference today, Microsoft-owned GitHub announced a couple of new products, as well as the general availability of a number of tools that developers have been able to test for

Google’s Cloud Source Repositories gets better search tools

Google today announced an update to Cloud Source Repositories, its recently relaunched Git-based source code repository, that brings a significantly better search experience to the service. This new s

Semmle, startup that makes code searchable, hauls in $21M Series B

Semmle, a startup that originally spun out of research at Oxford, announced a $21 million Series B investment today led by Accel Partners. It marked the second time Accel has led an investment in the

Microsoft and HackerRank bring executable code snippets to Bing’s search results pages

Sooner or later, every programmer ends up searching for code snippets and algorithms. Most search engines, though, don’t exactly specialize in code search and so you end up with a couple of link

Ohloh Wants to Fill the Gap Left by Google Code Search

I wrote last week that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/14/what-exactly-is-github-anyway/">GitHub is the Library of Alexandria of code</a>. That's not quite accurate since there are still many

Google Now Displaying Code Search Results

Starting today Google has integrated results from Code Search as snippets in the main search results page. Code Search was launched by Google in October of 2005 as a seperate vertical search property.