Google Website running on ASP.NET?

I filled up a survey form on Google Apps, when I just realized the URL ends with .aspx Does that means the survey website actually runs on Microsoft technology?

That is really strange indeed. I am guessing why the googleratings.com website is running ASP.NET are.

Its not running .NET anyway. The URL can be anything, but backend is different. For example, I could be hosting my website in PHP, have the scripts named filename.jsp and configure Apache to pass .jsp files to the PHP interpreter. Silly, but could be useful in terms of IT Security via security through obscurity.

A weak reason at best.


Online surveys are outsourced to an external company, which decides what technology they use. Very plausible reason. However, if you query the domain name (try http://whois.webhosting.info/googleratings.com for example), the result will be returned from Google's DNS nameservers, and the registrar shows that it is owned by Google. A search on Netcraft shows that survey.googleratings.com is running Windows 2008.

Still possible for Google to be owning the domain but letting anther company perform customer survey.

A bit odd, but that seems to be the case. If you go to http://www.confirmit.com you will find that all the pages are in .aspx anyway.

Even on Google's website, they explained that "GoogleRatings.com is a domain used by Google for conducting customer and user surveys. We rely on feedback collected through these surveys to improve our products."