Codifier: A Programmer-Centric Search User Interface
Andrew Begel · 2008
Search tools have transformed knowledge discovery by exposing information from previously hidden repositories to the workers who need it. Search engines like Google and Live.com provide search capabilities via a simple one-line text query box, and present results in a paged HTML list. When the repository being searched contains structured information with extractable metadata (e.g. program source code), it can be advantageous to index the metadata and use it to enable queries that are more task-centric and suitable for an domain-specific audience.