I can’t explain the search string required, but you need something like \s+N\w+\s+A\w+\s+T\w+\s+H\w+\s+A\w+\s+N\w+, and Code Search will find a word sequence that matches the letter sequence, assuming one exists in their index.

Philipp has made your job easier, by providing a search box you can type any word into, to get the results from Google, without any hard thinking.

Here are some:

• joe – just one example / jumble of extra
• fish – found if space has / For info see http
• carl – Clear any remaining live / create and remove lists
• coke – cache of known existence
• soda – styles of data access / Size of data actually / specified or defaulted attributes / select or delete all / shred of documentation about / start of desired area / standard options described above
• cola – count of locks against / consists of lines appearing / couple of lines ago / conditions or license agreements
• crap – computational resources and placing / carriage return and percent / command reports all people / can represent any possible
• dude – data using Data Encryption / Digital Unix default echo
• god – granting or denying / grows on demand / get old data / groups of directives / global operator delete / get our data / generates output data / gigabytes of data / group of documents / group of developers
• mom – most other machines / meaningful on MacOS / major or minor / minimum or maximum / missing or magic / matches our message / miss our man

Pretty cool. The “god” one is my favorite.

Word of the day: These are “backronyms”, words that start as acronyms that you find a set of words for.

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Gossip site Valleywag has reported the pending launch of Google Code Search. The site received news of the announcement, which is embargoed until 9 PM PDT today.

“According to a journalist, Google’s new product will launch already larger than the two main source code search engines, Koders and Krugle,” said Valleywag.

Google first debuted its competitor to SourceForge in July. Called Project Hosting, Google claimed it was not competing with SourceForge and pledged not to permit the creation of namespaces that duplicated projects on SourceForge.

The code repository at Project Hosting quickly began to fill with new contributions. Languages like Perl and others have a variety of projects appearing in Google’s repository.

It was noted in July that Google’s full-text search and version control for Project Hosting would draw upon Google’s existing technologies for search and storage. Code Search will be a logical extension of their services to developers.

Update: Google did launch the new service, and we have added the link to the first paragraph.

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