Krugle becomes the go-to search engine for open-source developers. With its partnerships with sites such as SourceForge.net and CollabNet (a community of 1 million developers), Krugle aspires to be the Google of software code search.

With its latest search appliance for software developers, Krugle aims to help users by allowing them to find codes that have already been written. In the case of SourceForge, for example, developers usually visit the site to download projects that are similar to the ones they’re doing. What Krugle does is to enable them to search through similar projects without having to download them entirely, cutting the search time significantly.

“They spend 25 percent or more of their time searching for lines of code to perform certain functions that may already exist. There’s no sense in writing code that’s already been written,” says Krugler, co-founder and CTO of the open-source search engine.

“Krugle gives software developers one thing they need most, time,” said John Andrews, CEO of Evans Data, a research firm. “If you could shave 10 percent of that time off, that is a huge productivity improvement either in costs savings, revenue generation or just spare time,” Andrews added.

While Google is still the first stop for many developers, having a search engine that’s solely dedicated to providing tools for developers will significantly make things easier when it comes to open-source search. Krugle was founded in 2005.

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