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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. Wonder what it'll be! by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder exactly how google go about it.

    I reckon they use a neural net type structure.
    Of course I may be proved wrong. I do find it unlikly that they will release the core engine part of the code. Considering how someone probobly has it patented.

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  2. Here you go... by GillBates0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I got it by doing View>Source. You can too...

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    // -->
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