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Comment by adamdecaf | Hacker News Reader

I don't know Japanese, but does that string really translate to the equivalent of "from scratch"? I know that Google Translate has had issues.

Also, what does that phrase mean in the context of Japanese? Does "from scratch" in Japanese mean what it does in English?

Literally translated it says "from zero", and it carries the connotations of "from square one"/"from first principles"/"from scratch"

Yes, the Japanese headline expression simply but strongly suggests Google made everything, including WebKit, SQLite etc.

I guess they mean they made everything that the user is aware of. Uses don't see, or even need to know about WebKit or SQLite.

But since when was advertising honest?

Without WebKit users would not see any web pages. Kind of lame behavior for the web browser.

You're forgetting:

  - glibc
  - gcc
  - Windows/OS X/Android/Linux
  - libjpeg
  - libtiff
  ... etc

It says, "from zero", where zero is the transliterated word from english.

Yes, I think Google is claiming they built it from scratch.