Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!

This edition covers:

• Android fan site gets a makeover
• Has Google acquired Plaxo?
• Take a trip down Blogger Memory Lane
• Google launches Google Open Source blog
• An overview of the other Google stories we've covered this week

Google released Code Search today. It is billed as the single location programmers can search for accessible code. Google Code Search can be searched using precise regular expressions, or restricted searches for particular languages or filenames can be performed. Google's code searcher crawls and indexes the web for .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar, and .zip files. The idea for the code search came about from Google's internal code base search tool that was getting a lot of successful usage. The results from searches seem a little messy, and quite ugly, which might be a deterrent for some users, but could potentially be quite a useful tool for providing more insight into, and solving coding issues quicker.

The Video Issue. In this issue we cover:

• Google Demo Reel
• Google Click Fraud: The Movie
• The Secret of Google's Search Engine
• Google's First TV ad
• Vint Cerf on Net Neutrality
• Google is looking for a Chef in Chelsea
• What News sources does Google index?
• Picasa Web Albums
• Gpokr

When Google Code popped up last week, the comparisons to SourceForge were rampant, and deservedly so. Google Code does everything (well, most things) that SourceForge does, Google-style. But how does Google Code really compare to SourceForge for actual open source project management? The anonymous blogger at //engtech has a good overview of of Google Code and how it compares to the SF juggernaut. He says that Google Code is easy to use and that "at the very least it lowers the barriers for project management. That might means more FOSS projects, but also a lot more crap to sift through."

Google dropped the word a little while ago about some Open Source Community thingy they were working on, and Greg Stein said that he was just putting the finishing touches on it. Well, it looks like it has been released.

The new service from Google is a hosting environment called Project Hosting, that allows developers to upload and store any open-source project code they have in their arsenal. It also allows those interested, to search and download open source codes in Python, C++, Java, Audio, XML, CSharp, Graphics, and many other formats.

Google Code allows users to create new projects under the new hosting environment, giving it a name, summary, description, assigning it a license, (if it is licensed), and labeling it with keywords. The online description together with the keywords, is how users will find the open source code on the Google Project Hosting website.

When a project is opened, It is displayed with the title, description, licenses, and labels. There are also links to Blogs, and Google Groups info on that particular open source code. A great job from Google to help open up and grow the open source community.

Google Dublin hosted the finals for the Code Jam Europe 2006. 10,000 registrants competed in Three rounds, with 50 finalists being flow to Dublin for the major final competition. 15 Countries were represented in the finals.

Earlier this year, Google had Code Jams in China and India. Another Code Jam is set for this Fall. Tomasz Czajka won the €2500 grand prize, and Petr Mitricheve from Russia took home second, with Roman Elizarov from Russia taking third, both grabbing €1000 each.

You can ensure that these winners will be watched, or have offers from Google, and other high end tech companies in the upcoming days. Google has some video of the CodeJam on Google Video. Good show!