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Re:Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services ... by ComodoHacker on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:42AM (#11158468)
>or hell sells them to another company

I don't think anyone at Google has ever (OK, in this millennium) considered an option to sell something. I guess it's a kind of superstition among top management, a sign of weakness perhaps.

Correct me if I'm wrong and Google has actually sold anything.

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Re:Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services ... by sangnoir on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:57AM (#11159228)
> Correct me if I'm wrong and Google has actually sold anything.

You're wrong, Google sold SketchUp[1] in 2012. SketchUp most likely wasn't hardwired into Google infrastructure (as a desktop app), and had been an acquisition.

1. http://investor.trimble.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=6676...

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Re:Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services ... by mathattack on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:49AM (#11158502)
I suspect it's strategic more than lack of intelligence. When you sell a company, you generally have to sell the people associated with the product. (A code base isn't worth anything on it's own without people who know it, and people selling it)
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Re:Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services ... by Dlotan on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:52AM (#11158511)
There was Motorola, which was sold to lenovo
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Re:Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services ... by ComodoHacker on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:07AM (#11158841)
Forgot about it, thank you. But it wasn't Google's product.
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Re:Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services ... by hobofan on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:54AM (#11158519)
The first thing that comes to mind is the sale of a part of Motorola. That's probably not what you were aiming for since that was not a "product" and Motorola was already bought with splitting the company in mind.
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Re:Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services ... by rory096 on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:37AM (#11159047)
SketchUp is probably the only software product they've sold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SketchUp

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