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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.'"

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

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

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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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