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Innovations: ------------ Google Search Adsense Google Analytics AdWords Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc. Google Calendar Gmail Google Maps Google Earth Goog
by dustinmoris 9y ago
Innovations:
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Google Search
Adsense
Google Analytics
AdWords
Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.
Google Calendar
Gmail
Google Maps
Google Earth
Google StreetView
Google Translate
Google Chrome
Kubernetes
AlphaGo
Spanner
TensorFlow
AI
Self driving cars
Go (programming language)
reCaptcha
Firebase
Special projects (not making money from it, purely to make the web/world a better place):
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Project Zero
Google Fonts
Google Crisis Response
Acquisitions:
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YouTube
Android
Waze (and now Waze Carpool)
Excellent clones (where I consider it better than competition):
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Nexus and Pixel phones
Google Home
Google Cloud Engine
Google Drive
Google Photos
Google Play Movies/Music/etc.
So yeah... I think Google is not any less innovative than they have ever been... I mean Google literally changed the web, from search, to mail to maps to everything. They are not doing anything different today than they did 15 years ago. Just in recent years they released things like Go, Spanner, Kubernetes, etc.
If they wouldn't have such a huge portfolio of so many other products then just these 3 products alone would be proof enough of how innovative they are.
- nieksand 9y agoAdsense, Analytics, Docs/Sheets/Slides, and Google Earth belong in the acquisitions bucket.