Google Labs has released a public search code tool, check it out at Public Code Search. It enables searching of source code directly, which will allow website developers to search for examples to particular coding problems or similar code to use as a guide when they get stuck. Obviously this is only going to help with clientside scripting like javascript. I’m going to experiment a bit more and report back any other uses I find.

Update: Patrick has an interesting post about the potential security holes created by codesearch Google Presents Code Search and it’s threat to Wordpress security. This is similar to problems with leaving any file on your server, even if its not directly web accessible (linked to).