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Krugle.com Code Engine to Add Ada, COBOL, Fortran


By Alex Handy
September 15, 2006 — 
Six months after its launch, the Krugle.com source code engine is going strong, according to a company executive. So much so that it’s adding Ada, Eiffel, COBOL, and Fortran to a list that already included C#, Java, JavaScript and Visual Basic.

“We’re getting a ton of great feedback; the traffic’s growing,” said John Mitchell, Krugle’s chief architect. “We’re getting a good variety of people coming from all over the world,” he said.

Krugle’s database of source code, gleaned from repositories, blogs and other Web-based coding hideouts, has expanded every day since the site began crawling the Web. Its back end is based on Nutch and Lucene, two open-source Web crawling tools, said Mitchell.

The site has become a coveted link—handed from developer to developer, Mitchell claimed, and has gained in popularity thanks to a link on the front page of developer portal Digg.com. “We got a couple of huge spikes [in traffic]. We got Digged at one point, and traffic quintupled,” said Mitchell. And all that traffic loves to search for JavaScript code, he added. It’s the most popular language in the database, he said, followed closely by Java, C# and Visual Basic.

'NEEDS MORE CONTENT'
One user who isn’t looking to find more languages on Krugle, however, is Bill Lazar, senior manager of customer experience at Rawsugar.com, a tag-based search engine. He said that, while Krugle was able to discover a snippet of code he needed, the database of code being searched needs to be expanded.

“Maybe this is more a function of how long they’ve been building their database, but it needs more content. Every UI could be improved, so there are little things here and there, but I think they need to bulk up the database of what users can search,” said Lazar.

Still, Lazar believes that Krugle is a far better way to find code than rival sites like Google and PHPclasses.org. “I went [to Krugle] and entered ‘OPML’ as my search term, and limited it to PHP. It gave me back more than a screen’s worth of results.” He downloaded the first choice, and within 20 minutes, his problem was solved. “I got my page working,” he said, which required compatibility with the Outline Processor Markup Language.

“Comparing this to Google or PHPclasses.org, you click one link and you can see the code [on Krugle]. On PHPclasses.org, you have to register and click through a bunch of screens,” said Lazar.

Mitchell said that Krugle has also been fielding requests to add Erlang, Lisp and Pascal, and added that putting those and other proprietary languages in the database is low on the list of priorities.


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