New Programming language from Google (Go Programming Language Home) :

No major systems language has emerged in over a decade, but over that time the computing landscape has changed tremendously. There are several trends:

• Computers are enormously quicker but software development is not faster.
• Dependency management is a big part of software development today but the “header files” of languages in the C tradition are antithetical to clean dependency analysis—and fast compilation.
• There is a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript.
• Some fundamental concepts such as garbage collection and parallel computation are not well supported by popular systems languages.
• The emergence of multicore computers has generated worry and confusion.

Regarding the points above:

• It is possible to compile a large Go program in a few seconds on a single computer.
• Go provides a model for software construction that makes dependency analysis easy and avoids much of the overhead of C-style include files and libraries.
• Go’s type system has no hierarchy, so no time is spent defining the relationships between types. Also, although Go has static types the language attempts to make types feel lighter weight than in typical OO languages.
• Go is fully garbage-collected and provides fundamental support for concurrent execution and communication.
• By its design, Go proposes an approach for the construction of system software on multicore machines.

This isn’t just some minor upgrade, but an entire new infrastructure for the world’s largest search engine. In other words: it’s a new version of Google.

The project’s still under construction, but Google’s now confident enough in the new version of its search engine that it has released the development version for public consumption.

It’s a completely upgraded Google search. Google specifically states that its goal for the new version of Google Search is to improve its indexing speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness.

To simplify using this new engine I whipped up a plugin to add the new engine to the Firefox search bar.

Install Google Caffeine dev search engine