Google inadvertently invents an acronym generator

Hats off to Google Labs for creating the first search engine to allow regular expressions, even if it's just for their new code search engine.

This is something I've been waiting for for ages. Why? acronym discovery!

This regex "\s+I\w+\s+P\w+\s+O\w+\s+D\w+" means find sequences of words that match I*, P* O* D*. We get from this:

 indexes pairs of digits
 invalid path or domain
 important property of DOM

\sL\w+\s+O\w+\s+V\w+\s+E\w+ searches for love and gets "lock on VLDB entry"

\sI\w+\s+B\w+\s+M\w+ finds i.b.m. and gets :

is being moved

image being manipulated

s.h.i.t.

signal handler is trashed

systems hide it there

r.s.s.

random string sent

related structures stored

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