Google Code Search vs. Koders.com

Last year I’ve written about Koders.com, a search engine that crawled open source code repositories and allowed developers to search for code; an extremely interesting and valuable tool indeed. When I first saw Koders.com I thought (and I wrote that down as well) that they would be soon bought by Google, because everything in Koders.com looks at first glance like a Google application. But actually, something different happened: Google came up with Google Code Search, its own code search engine. Here’s a quick comparison of both.

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