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basugasubaku on Oct 7, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: "How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L....

According to their 1998 paper (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html):

"Most of Google is implemented in C or C++ for efficiency and can run in either Solaris or Linux."

and also

"Both the URLserver and the crawlers are implemented in Python."

So at some point they decided to try out Python for certain tasks.

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