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:
Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace penalised as a result of search algorithm updates. ICOMP member The Premier League also attracted media attention following its legal clash with YouTube over alleged copyright infringements. Viacom also submitted a complaint to a US court, which eventually found in favour of Google. Viacom has since appealed against this decision. The current ICOMP chair as of March 2016, Michael Weber, operates hot-map.com (formerly hot-maps.de). Michael Weber appears notably in the ARD documentary "Die geheime Macht von Google". Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace The Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace or ICOMP is a lobbying organisation and based in London