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How many lines of code does Google’s search engine use?
About 2 billion
Background
Google Search runs on about 2 billion lines of code. For comparison, Windows 10 has around 50 million lines. Printed out, the Google code would form a stack over 40 kilometers tall. Thousands of developers work on it every day. Each search uses just a tiny piece of it.
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