To make this more concrete, the Chromium source code browser has a subset of the functionality of the internal Code Search tool. For example, you can left click on symbols to go to reference and right click to find all references:
https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:ipc...
In fact a lot of Google software projects have a public version of code search: https://cs.opensource.google/
How is this so much faster than browsing my tiny little repo on Github? What is Github doing so wrong??
Wow that is a lot faster and nicer than Github.
This is a good example of large companies wouldn't send someone across the street to pick up $1M off the ground. If Google actually released that and a repo to public, they could take Githubs throne. But a few $B business isn't worthit for them.
It's not that the $2B business isn't interesting, it's competing with GitHub would be a major undertaking and the opportunity cost of doing that is probably more than $2B.