Apparently Google's Updater is installed by a lot of other Google applications, as well.

The state machine / Paxos is used in commercial products that power large scalable systems, such as Chubby, a locking service used by Google applications.

An Android tablet without Google applications is not a very compelling product.

Once market place is installed on a company's domain, these third-party applications work like native Google applications.

The Xoom comes with the standard Google applications, including a calendar and address book that synchronize with the company's popular Web services.

He has provided a method to back up licensed Google applications during the mod's install process and restore them when it is complete.

Google developers are more concerned with bandwidth because Google applications manipulate very large files.

Lots of Google applications use MapReduce and they all benefit whenever someone optimizes it or fixes bugs.

After a Google Account is created, users can add other Google applications.

This is a hugely complex set of changes to nearly every Google application, and there's no effective way to test it without putting it out there.