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Re:Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects lon... by uiri on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:16AM (#14029445)
Google's quarterly revenue is roughly $20B[1] - that's $80B per year. I think that it is perfectly plausible that an engineer could achieve a 0.125% increase in yearly revenue. Now, disentangling that from other possible contributing factors, getting the right visibility from management, etc. is distinct from that.

I have no problem believing that MapReduce contributed $XB to Google's revenue over the course of the past 20 years.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204416...

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Re:Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects lon... by CalChris on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:13AM (#14029660)
MapReduce was published in 2004. The paper was two people; the implementation was probably a lot more. Even then, it was just a re-engineering of an earlier code base (read that as multiple available cat skinning technologies). By 2014, it was no longer used, so that's 10 years. Lastly, it wasn't exactly novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce#Lack_of_novelty

FWIW, it appears they're giving away the TensorFlow stuff because they lost the mindshare battle between MapReduce+Hadoop and don't want that to happen again.

Again, the $100M figure is an easy (heroic) claim to make but hard to substantiate. Shit's hard. Big shit is really hard.

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Re:Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects lon... by dekhn on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:41AM (#14032464)
You basically don't know what you're talking about, factually speaking, along a wide range of fact dimensions.
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Re:Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects lon... by CalChris on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:26AM (#14032913)
Good to know that. I was worried.
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Re:Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects lon... by londons_explore on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:15AM (#14032204)
> By 2014, it was no longer used

[Citation needed]

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Re:Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects lon... by CalChris on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:27AM (#14032931)
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/06/25/googl...
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