What type of programming language is used for search engines?

For instance ebay and nj gas quotes. I want to know what was used to make them. If you go on NJ gas quotes you can find local gas prices and their respective distances. My question is how did they program that? What programming language is widely used for applications such as this? I want to know because it intrigues me. Every day I go on Google or Yahoo, I am amazed.

What type of programming language is used for search engines?
It usually involves a database and a language set up to interact with that database.


All sorts of languages are used...


PHP is pretty common, especially on Linux servers.


You will often hear the term LAMP to describe web server setups. It stands for Linux Apache MySql and PHP.


A lot of sites use Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Pages). The language being used is actually either Visual Basic or Javascript. I believe Miscrosoft's C# language is becoming more popular also.





Other possible languages:


Perl (one of the first major web-search-engine languages)


Python


Coldfusion


Compiled programs (from C, C++ etc).





Common databases for such purposes:


MySQL


PostgreSql


Oracle





Have a nice day!
Reply:Google was originally totally written in Python. Now parts of it were made to run faster or more secure in other languages. This was a Google trade secret for a long time.





Python was chosen because it was designed with the concept, " there is one best way to do it." Many other languages are used for searches and many of them are not as successful as Google.

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