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by _cbsz 5999 days ago
I'd say it's a safe bet that stealing Google's source code wouldn't help much with replicating their datacenter infrastructure.
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Baidu already uses Hadoop's HDFS and MapReduce. They also support Hypertable. I would guess that they could probably put "something" together over time.
HDFS and MapReduce have nothing to do with building and maintaining datacenters.