Re:Leaving Google
by oblio on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:04AM
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Gmail was an acquisition, Google Maps was an acquisition, Android was an acquisition, Google Docs were an acquisition, I'm actually having a hard time thinking of a major Google project that's not an acquisition except for Google Search and Google Ads (and even there, I think they acquired DoubleClick early on and that boosted their ads business a lot).
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All but gmail. That was created in house by Paul Buchheit.
Ah, I thought it was based on an acqui-hire of Oddpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddpost