There is no single programming language. Google has a very open development environment with many different service APIs.

Java, Javascript, C++, Python, Go, Sawzal (a custom logging language), and probably a few other languages are supported.

Search is mostly based on C++ and some Python.

Ads is a Java/SQL stack.

Google Apps is a Javascript/Java/C++ stack.

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