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Re:Loon and Wing graduate from Google/Alphabet X by 1996 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @11:28PM (#17511970)
By "research", I meant it in the context of this discussion : "internal incubator" style R&D to try to spawn a brand new line of products totally outside of the current business line.

Ex: tablets for Microsoft in 1994. Google driving cars.

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Re:Loon and Wing graduate from Google/Alphabet X by VikingCoder on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:36PM (#17516265)
Android, Chrome, Maps, YouTube, GMail...

The "current business line" of Google was Search. Full stop.

Some people thought it was absurd when Google started doing email, or smartphone OSs, or browsers...

I could go on and on.

Microsoft doing gaming consoles. Amazon doing web services rather than online storefront...

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