Google Plans to Reveal Some of its Code

Andy Beal writes "According to Australia's The Age, Google plans to reveal some of the code it uses to great success. It says ' "The time has come for Google to "give something back", Wayne Rosing, the company's vice-president of engineering, told students while on a recruiting drive in Melbourne last week. "There have been a lot of conversations in the company in the past two months about (how) . . . it's time for us to give something back. So our technical director, Craig Silverstein, has started a project to look at all the Google code and start figuring out what parts of it we want to give back," Rosing said.'"

Comments

If I had to take a guess here

[Hanna's Goblin Toys]

I would guess that they are going to open source all their failed bombs from Google Research in the hopes that someone else can get them to work. Did anyone else here ever mess around with the phone search? You would open a window and then call in, and it would voice-recognize and give you your search results. What a dog. Like I'd say "Barney Smurf" and it would search for Blarney Stone. Great stuff, you know, for me to poop on.

Anyway I'll happily take their useless scraps, and their nonexpiring cookie and their unstoppable Orkut/Gmail social information gathering machine. Because when they dump all that stuff into a federal database at the request of USA/PATRIOT, I won't be in there.

Google in putting Social Darwinism into action. You're stupid enough to sign away your privacy for something as simple as email, you deserve the consequences.

Re:The Code - REVEALED!

[Anonymous Coward]

1. c++? yeah right.
2. ive never had a search take a whole second.

HTML "source code"

[Pflipp]

Am I nuts or did I just today accidentally find out that their index page's HTML is pretty low on W3C?

39 errors for such a small page which happens to be your business card for thousands of people... wonder what the rest looks like then ;-)