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The search is proprietary, but the company itself is one of (if not the) largest supporters of open source software out there. http://code.google.com/opensourc
by calambrac 17y ago
The search is proprietary, but the company itself is one of (if not the) largest supporters of open source software out there. http://code.google.com/opensource/ http://code.google.com/opensource/
Using Google for search makes Google money. Google reinvests a not-too-shabby amount of that money back into open source software. Ergo, using Google search promotes open source.
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- skinnymuch 17y agoGoogle also releases stuff by subsidizing them like crazy. Guess what happens to people who make better products? No one hears about them because all the techies are circle jerking themselves over the new Google product. Sad, really.
- calambrac 17y agoI'm pretty sure you're just talking out of your ass. Google has a long and storied history of releasing things to the sound of chirping crickets (Orkut, Froogle, Knol, Custom Search, etc.), and a lot of their services that aren't necessarily duds certainly aren't being circle-jerked over, either (Checkout, News, Finance, etc.)