NerdyData: a source code search engine

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/09/30/nerdydata/

by calebgarling • 13 years ago

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tomharari3• 13 years ago

A shame there aren't more comments here. NerdyData is an awesome tool that has many use cases and was built by a very smart young guy I had the pleasure of meeting here in NY. Highly recommend checking them out.

andrenotgiant• 13 years ago

agreed. I used to work with one of the founders - definitely expected to see his project up on HN. extremely smart and full of great ideas.

AznHisoka2• 13 years ago

That may be the major flaw - there are too many use cases, and not 1 compelling one. (not saying this to be mean, but just my honest opinion). It seems like a nice tool to have handy when you're doing some research, but for day to day use? I don't sell a compelling use case. The use cases they give are very specialized and specific to certain industries (ie finding Optimizely's clients)

tomharari3• 13 years ago

Excellent point and I hope the founders are listening. Target 1-3 very specific use cases and push that hard. It has gotten a lot of buzz around SEO circles so hopefully that community will support this project if they feel it helps enough in their day to day jobs.

sard420• 13 years ago

Looks cool, but currently just seems to be a "web developer" search engine. Seems they aimed purely for HTML/CSS/JS, which tells me there are legal hurdles getting anything but freely public facing code. Plus the whole credits thing? holy balls $99/month. Pulls my wallet out... buys coffee.

boyter• 13 years ago

There are a few other code search engines which search across publicly available code though if that's what you are looking for.

http://code.ohloh.net/ https://github.com/search?q=malloc&type=Code&ref=searchresul... http://searchcode.com/ http://codesearch.debian.net/

Symbolhound is also quite interesting, http://symbolhound.com/

Full disclosure I wrote and maintain searchcode.

markelliot• 13 years ago

Notably absent from your list is http://grepcode.com -- which IMO has one of the best interfaces around, with compiled code docs and some java-centric implementation and invocation links for java code they index.

xcyu• 13 years ago

Not too useful js since most results are minified js.

sanxiyn• 13 years ago

This looks great. This could be used to help discussions on Mozilla and WebKit issue tracker about how some changes will "break the web" or not. I am sure Google has this data and use the data to develop Chrome, but previously best public data was Opera's MAMA in 2008 and sadly that is completely outdated by now.

himal• 13 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102405

roryokane• 13 years ago

The parent’s link goes to “Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers”, the Show HN post by nerdydata 68 days ago announcing the engine’s launch.

wesleyac• 13 years ago

Cool, but forcing users to buy "points" probably hurts their market target (devs).

Otherwise,seems great. I'm intrested in using it to see how many sites use specific widgets or tracking pixels.

If they add regexps it would be prefect.

crawdog• 13 years ago

Looks like a great tool if you want to find new service customers. Did a search for some Endeca based variables and found a large number of sites.

Would be interesting if they had an alerting based product for BizDev/Sales people who want to know when new potential customers come online.

thomseddon• 13 years ago

Actual link: http://search.nerdydata.com/

Some fun searches: https://search.nerdydata.com/search/#!/searchTerm=client_sec...

bromagosa• 13 years ago

There used to be a very powerful one ran by Google, but they shut it down last year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search

wslh• 13 years ago

This is not a search engine to search inside of code repositories but web pages.

The idea was there in the air, at least someone implemented it!

aptwebapps• 13 years ago

Chrome doesn't like the certificate right now.

NerdyData: a source code search engine

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