Google & ASP.NET
I’ve just read about new launched Nike & Google social-networking site: Joga.com.
“Joga is an online community created by Google and Nike for anyone anywhere in the world who shares a love for soccer, the world’s most popular sport. Joga is about getting to know your fellow fans; creating games and clubs; accessing athletes from Nike; and enjoying video clips and photos (you can even upload your own). You can strengthen existing friendships and begin new ones, join a wide variety of professional athletes and soccer communities, and even create your own to discuss soccer, exchange tips on the coolest moves, browse through various pitches worldwide, and plan your next game.
But most of all, Joga is about “Joga Bonito” — Portuguese for “play beautiful.” Are you ready to start down the path of soccer bliss? Join us, and show the world what playing beautiful means to you.”
That’s very nice. But have you noticed file extensions? *.aspx. A Google website (check ‘forgot password’ page or domain name whois) with ASP.NET? That’s very interesting. I also checked webserver software: GFE/1.3. This one and GWS/2.1 are Google webserver software, maybe based on some *nix flavour, I think. So, they have ASP.NET on other platform? It’s not that is impossible, but I never thought they would use .NET at all. I don’t think it’s only *.aspx extension, because would have no logic.
Then I did another test: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Agoogle.com+filetype%3Aaspx&meta=
Interesting results again, although the pages are not there (but they were when page was indexed).
So, I think is fair enough to say: yes, Google is using ASP.NET.