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Re:G is for Google by msbarnett on Monday August 10, 2015 @05:09PM (#10037366)
Wave was supposed to completely blow away email.

Plus was intended to eat Facebook's lunch.

They were both huge moonshots.

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Re:G is for Google by cwyers on Monday August 10, 2015 @05:53PM (#10037678)
I think the implication about a moonshot is that nobody has been to the moon before the moonshot. The thing about Facebook's lunch is that lunch happens ever day at noon.
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Re:G is for Google by ceejayoz on Monday August 10, 2015 @05:13PM (#10037403)
> They were both huge moonshots.

Unfortunately, they used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket) for the rockets.

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