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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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