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just like they try to beat youtube with google video .... or Facebook with okkut..(not sure how they write it ...) ... if they cannot buy it they create a clone
by blackysky 16y ago
just like they try to beat youtube with google video .... or Facebook with okkut..(not sure how they write it ...) ... if they cannot buy it they create a clone...so far they fail...
- gregable 16y agoI don't know that the last part of that is accurate. Pretty much all successful products that Google has built have in some fashion (as loose as you are suggesting at least) been clones. Search, Adsense, Gmail, Reader, Maps, Chrome, ...
- iantimothy 16y agoI don't know about the rest, but for: 1. Gmail - The history makes it seem like an internal project that became public. Wasn't started to beat some new hot startup earning the attention of the fawning public & investors; wasn't built to muscle into the territory of some startup earning bucketloads of cash. 2. Maps - Was about building a better way to distribute maps on the web. Again, not about muscling in onto a hot new space.