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Re:Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet by ams6110 on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:48PM (#5741424)
Gmail was, sort of anyway. It opened another avenue to deliver advertising, which is the center of what google does.
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Re:Google Checkout will be retired, transition to Google Wallet by IronSean on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @10:43AM (#5743933)
You've got it backwards. They built Gmail as a fun project to improve a product in an area they didn't specialize in, then worked the ads in after the fact to monetize when it became popular.
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