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Google Maps was a successful acquisition/competitor clone. Google Finance is also successful (a clone of Yahoo Finance basically). Those are the only two others

by emmett 16y ago

Google Maps was a successful acquisition/competitor clone. Google Finance is also successful (a clone of Yahoo Finance basically). Those are the only two others I can think of off the top of my head. I don't think Google is particularly below average here though; I think it's just a risky strategy to clone something. You often miss a critical non-obvious piece of the puzzle, because only the surface of the business is visible when you're copying it.

pardo 16y ago
Other acquisitions that I would call successful (at least from user adoption point of view): * Picasa (Picasa - Jul 2004) * Google Earth (Keyhole Inc - Oct 2004 ) * Analytics (Urchin Software Corporation - Mar 2005) * Youtube (YouTube - Oct 2006) and probably many others from this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google