Sadly, it’s time to say goodbye to google code search as it will be shutdown on January 15, 2012.
I’ve been using it for a few years now, and I’m really sorry to see it go.
As to why they’re shutting it down, the discussion over at google groups has been just as enlightening as the original announcement - which is to say not at all.
The (soon to be abolished?) google code search team suggests a few alternatives – but I don’t like them so I won’t mention them. There simply isn’t anything out there that’s comparable to this service. Too bad.
It’s gone now. Unfortunately, I totally agree with you.
it’s ridiculous. google is transforming into a bad corporation. why code search? it’s a great tool for professionals. just because it don’t make money? ridiculous google, ridiculous.
Companies like google do bad things all the time. They also do good things. I don’t really think they care either way. They don’t have to care.
I hadn’t expected google to pull the plug on code search – but perhaps I should have. As far as I know, none of my colleagues was using it, and it wasn’t being updated as frequently as other google products. What I wonder, though, is whether it really cost google anything to keep it running. I don’t know.
Why? How? It’s simply the best tool i’ve ever seen to accomplish all work I have to do day by day? Will it be like this? The Internet Freedom is gone? OK, Shut it down so … the money that is made using the web exists thanks things like this and all the underworld implied to it. Thanks to the M.F. brainless that took this decision.
Paulo, I don’t think Internet Freedom is gone because google abandoned code search. It’s the likes of ACTA, SOPA, and PIPA – and the morons in our governments who only care how to keep their lobbyists happy – that threaten Internet Freedom.