Krugle bills itself as "the search engine for developers," and although Google is now a competitor, Krugle takes its own unique approach to searching source code, primarily open source. In this interview, Ken Krugler talks about the "really flat" long tail of code search, building parsers for 20 different languages, and the challenge of ranking code hits. He also describes providing a wiki for code commentary and tagging, how to sort through unstable or alpha code, and plans to open Krugle via APIs.
Ken Krugler is co-founder and CTO of Krugle. He first cut his coding teeth in the Lisa/Mac vortex, and then spent 15 years solving internationalization problems for companies like Apple, Adobe, and Palm. While helping out on the Chandler project at OSAF, he decided there had to be a better way to find useful code and good technical information. In February 2005 he began his obsession with creating an exploratory search system for programmers. In his now non-existent spare time he fiddles with cellular automata.
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