Re:Break Up Google
by wise_young_man on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:27AM
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Honestly I’m wondering what innovations they’ve had in the last 5 years. I’ve been around long enough to see their decay in that area. YouTube you mentioned was an acquisition. Android was created in 2008. Maps in 2005. What’s really new with Google besides a ton of failed ideas like Reader, G+, and messenger apps?
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It's worse than that. Maps was a 2004 acquisition[0]. Where 2 developed the base map tech originally, and Google acquired them and a couple of other companies, combining them to launch Maps in 2005.
Android, also, was an acquisition[1]. Google bought them in 2005 and launched in 2008.
Even their core ad business is mostly-acquired from DoubleClick. Even the "personalized search" they're known for involved an acquisition! Really, the list is amazing.[2]
[0] https://medium.com/@lewgus/the-untold-story-about-the-foundi...
[1] https://venturebeat.com/2010/10/27/google-exec-android-was-b...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
List is amazing ! They've just lucked out on their success.
Project Loon is quite interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_LLC
Fiber would have been great had they succeeded.
Photos
Tensorflow
Waymo
Can go on and on...