If you use WordPress be careful. An example Google Code Search search going around is “username file:wp-config.php” which happily displays username and passwords in WordPress config files… if they’re in compressed archives or a publicly accessible directory. Same goes for other configuration or settings files. For instance, connection strings in web.config files (connection string file:web.config), [...]

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Google Labs has released a Code Search tool (google.com/codesearch). You can limit the results to languages (lang:), particular licenses (license:), files (file:), and packages (package:). Regular expressions are supported as well. Language support appears to be limited to the following: Ada, ASP, Assembly, Basic, C, C++, C#, Eiffel, Erlang, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Lex, Limbo, [...]

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Google Notebook launches and TechCrunch says ho hum, complaining about the lack of tagging and the Google-like interface. They like the drag-drop organization and ability to quickly search across public notebooks.

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Yahoo isn’t going down without a fight. They are now offering an improved search technology which allows you to not only search messages, but also attachments. This is another instance where Yahoo is on top of the game, instead of Google. Everywhere else they are playing catchup. Competition is good.

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C Source Search is a new tool that makes it easy to search for pre-written open source code that can help you do your project without re-inventing the wheel. Most of the code is GPL, so you won’t be able to use it in commercial applications (unless it is for internal use only). Also, the [...]

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