In software development, code search is a way to better navigate and understand code. But it’s an often overlooked technique, with development tools and coding environments offering clunky and limited search functionalities.

Tech startup Sourcegraph aims to change that with its universal code search tool by the same name that makes searching code as seamless as doing a Google search on the web. To achieve that efficiency, Sourcegraph models code and its dependencies as a graph, and performs queries on the graph in real time.