In one of the more unique moves in the vertical search world, koders.com, an engine designed around the search of open source code is prepared to officially launch on Monday (5-16-05).
This particular vertical certainly does have promising potential, especially to the open source community. From my admittedly (very) few dealings with open source programming, it appears as if koders does have a relevant index and delivers what would be deemed as accurate results.
koders.com also offers an advertising outlet, with ads appearing on their search results, as well as result landing pages. To supplement their finances, they also feature Google AdSense ads.
Their search engine presence is certainly solid, with koders.com securing the Google+Search”>first position for code search engine on Google (24 million results).
Apparently, Google’s adverts are not the only thing koders has gained from Google. They are also preparing to offer an Enterprise edition of their search technology. This will allow sysadmins to delve into their own internal codebase.
For more information about koders.com, please read their white paper.
Thanks to Battelle for the heads-up.
Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for murdok. Visit murdok for the latest search news.
