The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died

Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by londons_explore on Friday November 23, 2018 @05:22AM (#18515599)

Google still uses code search widely internally. It's one of their greatest internal-only productivity boosts. The fact it has knowledge of includes and cross-references and function prototypes and templates is amazing...

You can still use it as an outsider to search Chromium:

https://cs.chromium.org/

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Re:The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and ... by londons_explore on Friday November 23, 2018 @05:30AM (#18515618)

Regex support is amazing to have in a search engine too... For example, paste in an email address validating regex:

https://cs.chromium.org/search/?q=%5Cb%5BA-Z0-9._%25%2B-%5D%...

Considering that one can't 'index by regex', I wonder how the backend works - does it actually run the regex against every source code line in the repository in a few hundred milliseconds? Sounds expensive! They must have thousands of machines! Maybe thats why they don't have a public codesearch tool for the whole internet...

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