There seems to have been the same level of hype over Facebook's apps and I haven't seen many Facebook app startups getting acquired by Facebook. Granted the Goo

There seems to have been the same level of hype over Facebook's apps and I haven't seen many Facebook app startups getting acquired by Facebook. Granted the Google App Engine is whole other level of app hosting but compared to the scale of Google could any single Google App Engine app grow large enough to worth acquisition by Google? The best offer an App Engine startup may get from Google is maybe a job offer and nothing more.