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Re:Google Loses Engineering Director Who Once Caused Steve B... by brown9-2 on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @09:05AM (#703586)
This article is filled with some ... interesting statements:

Lucovsky has been an integral part of Google’s APIs, including the all-important Search APIs.

Would anyone characterize them as all-important? Also, this:

Lucovsky was also the architect of Microsoft’s Hailstorm project to port older Microsoft products into .NET. It’s a project that’s be named as a precursor to the current open web movement.

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Re:Google Loses Engineering Director Who Once Caused Steve B... by aarongough on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:47AM (#703907)
It's possible that they were referring to the Search APIs for internal use, which I would assume could be called "all-important".
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