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» What

bitshift is an open-source online source-code search engine, developed by programmers, for programmers. The engine currently aggregates publicly-available code from two online frameworks – GitHub and Bitbucket – but has the necessary infrastructure to quickly incorporate others, like StackOverflow and Gitorious. bitshift supports a robust query language, which allows users to search for specific languages, files, dates of creation and last modifcation, and symbols (function, class, and variable names), amongst other attributes. Watch our introductory video:

» How

bitshift has an extensive back-end, roughly divided into three sections: The engine was developed over the span of four months, and is primarily implemented in Python, but has parsers in Ruby, Java, and a number of other languages.

» Who

bitshift was developed by three seniors from New York City's Stuyvesant High School.
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Benjamin Attal

Benjamin Attal hacked together bitshift's parsers and is working on data-visualization for bitshift's statistics page. He is a software developer and entrepreneur who enjoys listening to and playing country music, as well as working with smart people.
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Ben Kurtovic

Ben Kurtovic designed bitshift’s database and acts as its server admin. In his free time, he edits Wikipedia and invents new ways of confusing the hell out of people through source code obfuscation.
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Severyn Kozak

Severyn developed bitshift's crawlers and its front-end. He loves skiing, mathematics that he doesn't understand, and the art of good software development.
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