Google platform#Software

Google Web Server (GWS ) is the name of the Web server software that uses Google for its web infrastructure. Google's web server is used exclusively for all Google domains and websites. GWS is based on Linux and is not a branch of the Internet the most widely used Apache web server.

One Netcraft study by October 2009, according to Google's web server is behind Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Services with 13.56 % of all active domains in third place in the web server usage ranking. On the proportion of all registered domains worldwide Google web server holds 6.00 %, which is ranked fourth

Web page requests to many Google pages provide in the HTTP header information " gws " (without the version number) as an indication of web server software used. Google considers himself very covered with information on GWS. On a website of its Chicago office of Google wrote the following brief description of GWS:

"The Google Web Server (GWS ) team builds and Improves the proprietary web -serving infrastructure powers did Google web search and many other Google search properties. GWS is Involved in almost every user -visible change to the google.com site [ ... ]. We're always looking for gung-ho engineers, Ideally with a background in systems and experience working with very large C code bases. "

The current version number is 2.0 GWS.