Krugle- Search engine for software developers

Why Google when you can Krugle? Was the headline of a blog entry that caught my attention and lead me to the home page of krugle.com, a search engine exclusively for developers.

Developed by Ken Krugler, Krugle is a web based search application developed exclusively to address the information needs of a software developer. Its powerful search algorithm scans through millions of code files and throws up relevant result sets in almost no time making it different from generic search engines like Google or Yahoo.

Krugle searches by crawling, parsing, and indexing code found in open source repositories and code that exists in archives, mailing lists, blogs, and Web pages.

The Krugle application facilitates searching for code, technical documents like whitepapers as well as open source projects. Krugle helps find the code as well as related technical and licensing information to evaluate and use that code. All searches can be saved as well as shared.

Designed by programmers, for programmers Krugle goes beyond a search engine and works like tool designed to provide the critical information software developers need.

Powered by open source search software Apache Lucene, Krugle allows developers to focus on task at hand by effectively searching source code files and displaying results in an easy to use manner.

Google Code (still in beta), Google’s code search engine works on the lines of Krugle and facilitates code search but Krugle’s search on projects and tech papers takes it a step further giving it an edge over Google Code.

According to Ken, Krugle’s traffic has gone up tremendously with the launch of Google Code and he is aiming to achieve one million unique visitors on his site by next year, after which he would look at ways of earning mullah.