Google launches search service for computer code | Reuters.com

The programmer can search the source code of any public repository using Google code search. For example, view a sample program to convert subversion commit messages to rss/atom feeds, just type svn2feed and it throws a sample program ;) :) The source code of any open source project can be searched this way.

Google Research Publication: BigTable

Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance. These applications place very different demands on Bigtable, both in terms of data size (from URLs to web pages to satellite imagery) and latency requirements (from backend bulk processing to real-time data serving). Despite these varied demands, Bigtable has successfully provided a flexible, high-performance solution for all of these Google products. In this paper we describe the simple data model provided by Bigtable, which gives clients dynamic control over data layout and format, and we describe the design and implementation of Bigtable.

Please read the PDF document for more details.

Google Code - Project Hosting

It's a cool site. Read on this article for details. It uses Subversion project to store the source code. The site is at its early early stage. I see couple of problems:

1. The url is c.g.c/hosting, when they actually don't host the project
2. When the project is hosted in Sourceforge, they claim to send an email intimation to the sourceforge project owner for approval. But, actually they don't send the email
3. I smell the urgency to release it to the community even though it's not fully functional
4. When i try to commit the project, it reports 'authorization failed' even though i use the password generated in the web interface