Google Source Code

If someone stole the source code to Microsoft Windows it might cause a few security issues, but they couldn't do much with it. I would imagine they would get sued pretty hard by the MS team of lawyers. But what about the source to Google Search and Indexing? You could tweak it and then create a rival service without a huge risk of getting busted...well maybe.

I would like to make a search engine one day, its pretty hard though. I wrote some of the blinkBox search engine and its given me a new appreciation for good search results and how difficult they are to achieve. Those blokes at google are pretty sharp I would say.