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Google Plans to Reveal Some of its Code

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the could-you-be-more-vague-please dept.

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.'"

13 of 383 comments (clear)

  1. Yahoo! by xenostar · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, Yahoo! announced it will be completely overhauling its search engine.

  2. The Code - REVEALED! by strictnein · · Score: 3, Funny
    Preview of source code to be released:
    int main()
    {
    // magic google code removed

    // Rest of code

    // How many records did we "find"?
    int random1 = rand();
    int random2 = rand();
    int random3 = rand();
    int random4 = rand();

    cout << "Results 1 - 10 of about " << random1 * random2 ^ random3 << "for " << SEARCH_ENTRY << ". ( " << random4 << "seconds)";

    }
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    1. Re:The Code - REVEALED! by Psiren · · Score: 4, Funny

      You haven't flushed your output ;-)

  3. Re:Is there anything Google can't do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    *don's tinfoil hat*

    You better give it back. Don gets very nervous without it.

  4. Re:Excellent! by SpiritOfGrandeur · · Score: 3, Funny
    Although Google obviously won't be releasing it's search algorithms it might well release the code for things like the Google FileSystem (PDF) which may benefit a lot of people.
    If this was to happen just imagine how much longer we would have to wait for Microsoft to release Longhorn.
  5. Here's some more code by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 3, Funny

    using System.XML;

    [...]

    if (ContainsAdSenseAds())
    {
    pageRank++;
    }

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    1. Re:Here's some more code by Petronius · · Score: 4, Funny

      using System.XML;

      [...]

      if (ContainsAdSenseAds())
      {
      pageRank++;
      profit();
      }

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  6. Re:and Sun is "opening" Java... by koekepeer · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Counting them out before they even get started is a little unfair, don't you think?"

    yeah we only do that when we talk about MS or SCO or something *grin*

  7. Re:how? by fanfriggintastic · · Score: 4, Funny
    Having a friend inside Google, I'm privy to certain information. The first few lines of the google code, for example:
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>Google </TITLE>
    ...
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  8. Re:Sure why not by Gorgonzola · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, I'd love to have a brain implant that would allow me to query Google just by thinking about it. It would probably disqualify me for any TV quiz show, but would otherwise be really nifty.

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  9. Re:Is there anything Google can't do? by Dirk+Pitt · · Score: 5, Funny
    what code are they going to release

    They're releasing all the code that changes the bannerhead to some cute picture on holidays. Powerful stuff.

  10. only on slashdot by Lehk228 · · Score: 5, Funny

    would you get criticised for bugs and deviation from standards in your joke source code.

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  11. Sneak Preview of the Code from Google by GweeDo · · Score: 3, Funny

    /*
    * Allocate 'size' units from the given map.
    * Return the base of the allocated space.
    * In a map, the addresses are increasing and the
    * list is terminated by a 0 size.
    * Algorithm is first-fit.
    */

    ulong_t
    atealloc(
    struct map *mp,
    size_t size)
    {
    register unsigned int a;
    register struct map *bp;
    register unsigned long s;

    SCO's not going to be happy about this ;)

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