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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by mtmail on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:20PM (#23156648)
Different brands can make sense though. Youtube isn't called Google Video and Blogger isn't Google Blogs.
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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by gruturo on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:29PM (#23156792)
Google Video was an actual product, competing with Youtube. When they decided to acquire the much more successful Youtube, its brand already had a lot of value and recognition, so it survived.

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

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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by tyingq on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:43PM (#23157022)
Similar, on a smaller scale, for Blogger. Google acquired it.
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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by buttersbrian on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:10PM (#23157490)
Yet they applied the google name to nest? Android remains without a google moniker (other issues there).

Point being that google has quite a few inconsistencies in their naming (which is a thing in itself) and their not applying Google brand to Waymo at this point is any indication.

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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by throwaway2048 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:48PM (#23161565)
Android was also acquired.
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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by chubot on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:31PM (#23156831)
Google Video existed and was shut down after Google acquired YouTube:

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

Blogger was also an acquisition (from the future founder of Twitter), and it already had a strong brand.

Whereas in 2011 there was a lot of marketing tying self-driving cars <=> Google.

There could be other reasons for the separate brand, like managing bad PR from a crash, but I would also classify that under "don't have confidence".

In contrast Tesla seems to be staking their brand on self-driving. I feel like this could backfire in the next 5-10 years, but Elon will probably make some other advance/launch to distract from that. Self-driving has already fallen behind Tesla's claims, but he can keep the media busy enough with other stories.

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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by rchaud on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:53PM (#23157207)
It last several years beyond the acquisition of YouTube. In college, I used to be something of a history buff and remember watching and enjoying many old documentaries on WW2 and Cold War stuff on Google Videos. According to the Wiki article, they only turned off uploading to Google Videos in 2011, almost 6 years after acquiring YT.
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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by three_seagrass on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:05PM (#23157417)
Everyone is pointing out that those two are acquisitions, but they're missing Verily, Calico, Jigsaw, Wing, Chronicle, etc.

It's par the course for X graduates to get their own brand.

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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by cesarb on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:37PM (#23156929)
> Youtube isn't called Google Video

Google Video is a thing, it was Google's competitor to YouTube before Google bought YouTube. (And YouTube was already called YouTube before Google bought it.)

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Re:Waymo has raised $3B in the last two months by ulfw on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:05PM (#23158265)
Youtube was an acquisition.
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