I spent some time yesterday learning a bit more about Groovy, a pretty cool dynamic language targeting the Java platform. In the process of sniffing around the documentation I came across searchgroovy.org, which titles itself as a search engine for references, articles and applications for the Groovy language.

What’s really interesting about this site is it’s powered by Google Co-op, a service that lets you easily create custom search engines based on a pre-defined set of websites. It also provides a gadget for adding the search engine to your Google homepage.

The Google Co-op website highlights a number of other custom search engines, however none were particularly geared towards the IT industry. This surprises me, because the ability to search a select set of sites for language-specific code and documentation seems immensely useful. However perhaps it’s a simply a matter of promotion (or lack thereof) of this service, as seems to be so often the case for Google’s seemingly neverending array of cool services?