It's official: Google buys Zenter

Re:It's official: Google buys Zenter by bk on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @11:38PM (#29402)

What technology did Zenter use to build their service? Python? Java? I'm just wondering if Google has a preference for certain technologies.

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Re:It's official: Google buys Zenter by nostrademons on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @12:35AM (#29432)

Somebody asked Chris Sacca (one of Google's main acquisition guys) this at the first Startup School. His answer was "Build it in whatever language will let you get to market and start getting users fastest. Usually when Google buys a company, we have to rewrite all the code anyway to take advantage of Google's infrastructure and scale to millions of users."

This doesn't answer your question about Zenter, but it should about Google...

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Re:It's official: Google buys Zenter by SwellJoe on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @03:54AM (#29462)

It's predominantly JavaScript.

I believe the back end is Java.

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Re:It's official: Google buys Zenter by paulgb on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @11:08AM (#29540)

I think you are right. Whois.sc cached the server response headers before Google switched the server, and it was "Apache/2.2.4 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_jk/1.2.21 SVN/1.4.4". mod_jk is a Tomcat connector, so it would make sense that the site would be written in Java.

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