Black Duck Team Launches Updated Open Source Search Engine

Now there are several projects that can be called libraries of open source software and source code of this software. Other such projects include GitHub and Sourceforge. Projects are good for everyone, except that it is sometimes quite difficult to find the necessary software and source code. To make life easier for programmers and their sympathizers, Google launched Google Code Search in 2006. According to the plan, the service allowed to search for the necessary data on any services like GitHub and Sourceforge. Google Code Search found its niche, and quite a lot of specialists used its capabilities. But recently, the corporation announced the termination of support for this service.

Now, the Black Duck team is trying to occupy a niche previously owned by Google Code Search, with its Ohloh project. This project will replace the previously existing Koders service, created by the same guys from Black Duck. The company itself earns on its products and services for organizations using open source. In particular, one of the services of "monetization" is a resource that tracks the correctness of the use of various kinds of licenses.
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While Google has closed its own search engine by code because of its unprofitability, Black Duck is going to make its service profitable. The final monetization option is still under discussion, but Ohloh service itself will work in three directions:

1. Training - you can see ways to solve problems similar to yours with other users;

2. Search for the necessary sources that can be used in your own project;

3. Comparison of the code;

Among other things, it will be possible to post your own projects on Ohloh, while the system will provide users with statistics, including the frequency of project updates.

Generally. quite an interesting service, which, however, can not be called unique. Related projects are OpenLogic , Palamida and Protecode . It should be noted that the Ohloh service was not created by the Black Duck team from scratch, the project was purchased from Geeknet, back in 2010. Now the acquired resource is significantly updated, improved, and ready to go.

Via techcrunch