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I'm sure all the effort Google put into being able to compile google3 for Power resulted in significant price concessions from Intel, which I imagine was the point of the project in the first place.


Was there a google1 and google2?


Original was just "google". There was also "google5" but not 4.


What's google3?


Sorry for the jargon. google3 is the name of their perforce repository that contains all of their backend code, everything that runs in their datacenters.


It refers to all of Googles code. And in this case the possibility to run it on PowerPC servers.




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