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If Google actually had the algorithm for a cat, I'd like to see them release that too.

Its freely available. A copy can be found in every cell of every cat.

Algorithm is not the same as the the source code, which is what genes contain. We have obtained them trough gene sequencing, but we still don't know how organisms work and grow.

They have: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/using-large-scale-bra...

Furthermore they already published their search engine algorithm: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

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