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Koders Inc. has launched Koders.com, a free Web-based server designed to locate open-source projects. The company claims this product nearly instantaneously accesses almost 200 million lines of code world-wide, and is working on free plug-ins for Eclipse and Visual Studio that will let search capabilities function in those environments. Koders is banking on the desire of independent-minded developers to find the code line they need in their latest application; accordingly, searches can be conducted by license type, language, function, feature, keywords or commands. The site evaluates code quality and assigns values accordingly, tracking what users discover, download, and reuse. While downloads do not directly indicate usefulness, tracking this statistic over time improves its accuracy; not unlike cream, better projects tend to rise to the top. Koders uses a core technology it calls Kodebot, a crawler connected to version-controlled systems that gets updates and imports project lists. A paid Enterprise Edition is due for release by Fall 2005, permitting companies to add their own code repositories to searches. Pricing for this service has not been determined. Koders.com's Google-style approach toward code may be an idea whose time has come.
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