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Google rewrites a lot of the stuff they buy, so if shutting down the current version of something makes it not an acquisition, you'd practically have to stop u
by pg 17y ago
Google rewrites a lot of the stuff they buy, so if shutting down the current version of something makes it not an acquisition, you'd practically have to stop using the word "acquisition" to describe Google acquisitions.
- axod 17y agoFair point, I don't know what technology, code or IP was actually included. Did they solve anything the GMail team couldn't solve? reMail is billed as 'email search'. Surely Google are pretty good at email search already? Without any details released of the deal no one can really tell if it's an acquisition or an "acquisition". There's a difference between shutting down the product (pownce, etherpad, etc), and just rewriting (reddit, blogger?, youtube? etc) and keeping the product going.
- rantfoil 17y agoThe constraints of search on a mobile device are considerable in comparison to that of the web. Gabor was brilliant in his execution on mobile optimization.
- axod 17y agoyou mean [non connected] search on a mobile device? I can certainly see that, but I'm not sure how big a market there is for it.