In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion.[11]
Google Maps was launched in February 2005.[2]
These are the last 2 Google products I use
Search got replaced by DDG then Ecosia Chrome by Firefox Gmail by my own mail server My Pixel 2 ran out of security coverage and sick of buying a new phone every 2 years I went to an iphone xs
Youtube and Maps are the only two sticky products left and both came about when I was in high school
He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway. Eventually resorting to back-channeling to Larry in order to get him to champion the project.
He tells the story in an episode of the podcast "The Social Radars."
Pretty good listen.
By G+ leadership - Vic Gundotra.
This is hardly reproductible. I guess that the standard place people go after gmail is fastmail.
But getting a free equivalent is hard (at least I do not know any). I could host my mail but this is hard work and monitoring.
Gmail, GDocs, and GAnalytics have been the hardest replace. I can't find a reasonable free alt. to those.
It is the one that works best for concurrent editing IMO (but it is markdown which can be a problem for some)
I'm willing to presume Larry had bold visions, but if I grouped google products, I think successful and launched before 2006 would be the same.
I think it's time to admit that google has been a conglomerate for decades and could no longer run with innovative management. The correct thing to do is to break it up so subdivisions of today can be innovative companies, or reliable dividend payers, or bankrupt.