Google Code Search Tips

Google Code Search has finally launched! indexing billions of lines of code from around the Internet, Google intends to make source code that is available on the internet, easily accessible and searchable.  The ways that this will help advance programming and algorithms will be phenomenal!  Below I present some great Google Code Search Tips for you to try!

Searching Regular Expressions

Let's say you need a regular expression to validate  e-mail address's, well no problem, search:

regexp e-mail

Retrieving Passwords

Well this is slightly in the black area, but of course, being curious and all, here is a way to get passwords from files.  I should note this is good as it will teach people to be much more secure with their passwords.

lang:php file:wp-config user -sample

Interested in some asp.net passwords? This will give you some passwords found in web.config file.

connectionstring file:web.config

and now for some root passwords in php

file:config.inc.php "MySQL password" "root"

Learn how to create crackers

Interested in figuring out how crackers create code to circumvent your serial code protection?

keygen name serial

I will add more tips as I see them!  Hopefully Google Code Search will make us all better programmers!

Comments

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