# codesearchguide.org

**Repository Path**: mirrors_sourcegraph/codesearchguide.org

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: codesearchguide.org
- **Description**: Everything you ever wanted to know about code search. (WIP, will be online soon!)
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-08-05
- **Last Updated**: 2026-01-25

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# Code search guide ([codesearchguide.org](https://codesearchguide.org))

**STATUS:** Work in progress! Many pages are incomplete.

Everything you ever wanted to know about code search.

**Read at [codesearchguide.org](https://codesearchguide.org):**

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- [What is code search?](https://codesearchguide.org)
- Features & use cases (TODO)
- [How companies/projects use code search](#TODO)
  - [Google](https://codesearchguide.org/story/google)
  - [Facebook](https://codesearchguide.org/story/facebook)
  - [Brave](https://codesearchguide.org/story/brave)
  - [Chromium & Android](https://codesearchguide.org/story/chromium-android)
  - [Linux](https://codesearchguide.org/story/linux)
  - [Yelp](https://codesearchguide.org/story/yelp)
  - [Stripe](https://codesearchguide.org/story/stripe)
- [Code search tools](https://codesearchguide.org/tools)
- History of code search (TODO)
- [Further reading](https://codesearchguide.org/links)

## Contributing

All contributions are welcome. Just open a pull request.

This entire guide is licensed under [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).

To preview the site locally, install [docsite](https://github.com/sourcegraph/docsite) and run `docsite serve` in this directory.

## Inspirations

Some super useful comprehensive guides to a certain topic:

- [Pro Git](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2) by Scott Chacon
- [Pricing low-touch SaaS](https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/saas-pricing) by Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

## Sourcegraph-internal documentation

> This section is only applicable to Sourcegraph staff.

- [codesearchguide.org analytics (page views, etc.)](https://dash.cloudflare.com/e82b9f6a9a9704e284eb4317b15cb2a1/codesearchguide.org/analytics/traffic/page-views)