“Google does a lot of good for developers. At one time or
another, I’d bet that many developers have played with a Google API
at some point.Developers have also come to rely on Google’s Code Search over
the years. It’s a service that I first wrote about when it launched
five years ago. At the time, then Google product manager Tom Stocky
was enthusiastic about the effort as a way to easily search for
publicly accessible source code.Now, after five years of great service and millions of queries,
Google is set to shutter the service and kill it off.