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		swolchok on Jan 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New De... I'd say it's a safe bet that stealing Google's source code wouldn't help much with replicating their datacenter infrastructure.

coderdude on Jan 15, 2010 [–]

Baidu already uses Hadoop's HDFS and MapReduce. They also support Hypertable. I would guess that they could probably put "something" together over time.

swolchok on Jan 17, 2010 | [–]

HDFS and MapReduce have nothing to do with building and maintaining datacenters.

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