[jacquesm]

Well, to be honest, the cost of bandwidth was one of the factors that caused me to nix the project, we were having enough bandwidth problems as it was (we got kicked off the international backbone because the webcams saturated it).

Was the first iteration of Google really written in Python?

That's quite interesting.

[andrewljohnson]

Pretty sure it was Java: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.java/aSPAJO0...