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Re:G is for Google by magicalist on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @12:02PM (#10042058)
> Google's own canonical example of a moonshot is Android

Is it?

> By that definition, Orkut and Reader qualify just fine

If everything is a moonshot, nothing is, etc.

AFAIK both projects were just 20% time projects scaled up to three or four people[1]. A "moonshot" is obviously a wishy-washy term, but opportunity for success doesn't seem to be sufficient to call something that.

[1] http://massless.org/?archive=2007/05/about-google-readers-bi...

Re:G is for Google by gress on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @05:43PM (#10044607)
> Is it?

Yes. They first used the word when referring to Andy Rubin's departure from Android.