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Google built a pretty successful social network, which even grew faster than Facebook for the first half decade. And like with their messaging services, they th
by icebraining 7y ago
Google built a pretty successful social network, which even grew faster than Facebook for the first half decade. And like with their messaging services, they then decided it was better to just create a new one from scratch rather than trying to work with what already successful.
- dillonmckay 7y agoOrkut?
- icebraining 7y agoYeah.
- wpietri 7y agoOrkut? I'm not sure we can really count that as something Google created. As I recall, it was a single engineer's side project based on work he did previous to Google. Sure, Google did sort of adopt it. But as you say, it got pushed aside.
- michaelbrave 7y agoReader was kind of a social network too, and would have equally been a great foundation to build on instead of shutting it down for google+