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Google now offers a service for hosting popular JavaScript libraries, so for any website this is used on the performance will be better (the user may have already downloaded the file on another site and it is cached) and it will reduce the bandwidth your server uses. So far it hosts jQuery, prototype, script.aculo.us, Mootools and Dojo. You can either load it via the Google AJAX API or the <script/> tag. The advantage of using the Google API is that it can be used for Google's services as well (like Maps, RSS/Atom Feeds and Search (Analytics is missing from the list though)). Ajaxian » Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s infrastructure Google AJAX Libraries API , Developers Guide

Google now allows you to search for source code via Google Code Search that is freely available under several open source licenses (e.g. (L)GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache etc).

Google now offers hosting for your source code: Google Code - Project Hosting . It seems to use subversion for version control and you can use your Google username (the password is generated for you) to check out code. Labels are used instead of set categories - it would be better if they were used to complement categories instead. It has very few licenses to choose from (which in some ways is good as there are so many open source licenses to choose from) - it lists only the most popular ones. There are a few downsides though: Code has to be downloaded via SVN (browser or client application), no zip/exe/tar.gz releases Latest updates not shown on homepage (due to lack of releases feature - listing SVN updates would not be very helpful as they page will be constantly changing) No popularity / activity rating (listing most active and popular projects on home page) No Atom (Google don't use RSS) feeds (which is a bit of a surprise) No ability to request features Search page do...