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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.'"

9 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. 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.

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

    You haven't flushed your output ;-)

  4. 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*

  5. 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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    This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is a tribute.
  6. 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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    -- Spelling and grammar errors tend to be a sign of erroneous thinking.
  7. 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.

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

    using System.XML;

    [...]

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

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    there's no place like ~
  9. 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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