It's been like that for years. Can't see it improving, now that they're going to have a monopoly on the market.
I will happily pay money to anybody who can build a code search service that is actually functional.
I will happily pay money to anybody who can build a code search service that is actually functional.
It doesn't search code repositories, but rather tutorials and question/answer sites like stackoverflow. Right now stackoverflow dominates the results but that should change as we index more sites.
I ask as I am doing this but have not considered a business model for it as yet.
I wonder if you could even build a market off open-sourcing the engine, thus allowing people to improve it for you, and run a paid service that searches GitHub, Google, etc for results. Free accounts for contributors that fix bugs or provide speed / feature improvements?
I dunno, just throwing ideas out while they're percolating, I haven't given them a whole lot of thought.
I had also considered the GitHub model. I will be making portions free-software as the whole thing is built off it anyway.
If nothing else I will be going free for quite a while as I believe that there should be a code search repository available online.
For the record it will live at http://searchco.de/ I was in the middle of pushing out my second release when Google made its announcement so its looking a little worn at the moment.