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by hugorodgerbrown 4777 days ago
I'm pretty sure that the original scraping scripts that Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked on (before Google was called Google) were written in Python. (Although I can't find the reference I read about that, so could be mistaken.)

[UPDATE] According to Wikipedia (judge for yourself), Larry Page is quoted as saying:

    "BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs
    on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux."
, back in 1996 whilst he was still at Stanford (Backrub being the original project name).