John Cox has this new post today where he takes a look at the newly introduced BeebleX PHP search engine - with some interesting thoughts on it.

I have been following the development of BeebleX which on first glance is a good resource for the PHP Developer in me. There has been a great deal of hard work put into the engine from the folks at php|Architect and it is shaping up quite nicely. I do have some random thoughts from first impressions.

The Good - I really like the PHP Job Index. Bonus points for the RSS Feed being generated. I also really like Blog listings being returned in the results.

I like the PHP Mailing list results that are being returned. I don't know that I like them being returned with all of the results though. I know what would be a great resource for me and I would imagine others, would be a search for Open Source php libraries / code in a single place. Another great resource would be to search different PHP projects code documentation / PHPDoc / php XRef in one place.

I see where the interface is going, and I don't have many complaints. One thing that would be nice is to color code the links based on which database they are generated from.

He offers a bit more detail on each item, but overall seems to feel that the current state of things is "a good start" and has the potential to really be something great for the PHP community...