Re:The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they...
by Timothee on Thursday August 14, 2008 @01:31PM
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Keyhole -> Google Earth was a big success too.
The thing is that we tend to forget the successes a little bit because they got to merge so well with Google.
Looking at the list of acquisitions on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions), I can only think about Blogger but I have no experience on if it changed for the best. As far as I can tell, it looks like it's still working fine.
The thing is that we tend to forget the successes a little bit because they got to merge so well with Google. Looking at the list of acquisitions on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions), I can only think about Blogger but I have no experience on if it changed for the best. As far as I can tell, it looks like it's still working fine.