Google Code Search - Only for geeks?

Google launched code search (refer title of this post) for the software developer community.

From this CNET news post, "Google expects that the search engine will be used primarily as a learning tool to help students and serious programmers, rather than a way to find and copy another person's code."

I had a first look at it and feel its a bit geeky. Although it supports both regular expressions and keyword search, I found keyword search not satisfactory and for a student/beginner using regular expressions may be a bit difficult. And for the experienced developers, they may not be too patient to learn the regex of Google code search. My view :)

Lets hope to see more intelligence from Google code search in the coming days.

My preference as at now still lies with koders as it is simpler to use and the results are also quite near to what you generally expect.

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