Google data centers in late 2013 and began selling off the barges in 2014. Most of the software stack that Google uses on their servers was developed in-house. According to a well-known Google employee, C++, Java, Python and (more recently) Go are favored over other programming languages. For example, the back end of Gmail is written in Java and the back end of Google Search is written in C++. Google has acknowledged that Python has played an important role from the beginning, and that it continues to do so as the system grows and evolves. The software that runs the Google infrastructure includes:
Social impact of YouTube online equivalent of the Homebrew Computer Club, take place virtually, via video. Three years after Google purchased YouTube and larger production companies had begun to dominate, a "New York Times Magazine" journalist said the website was "still incubating novel forms of creative expression and cultivating new audiences" as amateurs continued to create "microgenres" serving niche audiences, collectively creating what she described as an "art scene". In projects such as the YouTube Symphony Orchestra and "The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers," geographically distributed artists were selected based on their individual online video auditions, and assembled on the same stage to perform, respectively,