DEMO - Demo show unveils Krugle, Google for developers

08.02.2006
Opening day of Demo 06 turned the spotlight on open source with three companies leveraging the collaborative and community nature of the model to bring developers and users closer together.

Krugle presented a specialized search engine designed for developers to help them find and assemble code rather reinventing the wheel and writing code from scratch.

"We are the Google for programming code," said Steve Larsen, CEO.

Developers are able to use Krugle to either search for keywords or they can actually drop code into the search bar.

Krugle finds source code files and, because the search engine also understands the language the source code was written in, it preserves the structure of the code rather than just presenting a string of hard to read text, said Larsen.

The search engine also allows developers to download documentation and information on licensing and the operating environment in order to help a developer decide if the code is right for a particular project.