Is Google doing stuff like this more in recent times (open sourcing things related to their core competency, search), or have I only noticed recently? Like htt

Is Google doing stuff like this more in recent times (open sourcing things related to their core competency, search), or have I only noticed recently? Like https://github.com/refr/ https://github.com/refr/ also. [side note: I wish they'd put all of this on github in an organized fashion like http://github.com/linkedin http://github.com/linkedin or http://github.com/facebook http://github.com/facebook ]