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Does Google have a "always play catch-up" mantra in addition to "don't be evil"? - Hotmail (Gmail) - Mapquest (G Maps) - Firefox/IE (G Chrome) - iOS (Androi

• ghurlman 15y ago
  Well, considering that they started out taking an existing concept and making it better... - Google (AltaVista/Lycos/etc)
• simonsarris 15y ago
  Calling it "always play catch-up" is unfair. It's really "See an existing product and try to execute it better" with catch-up as the first phase. And oftentimes when they do play catch-up they certainly don't have to for long. If anything, for the first three any catching up to do is going to be the other way around.
• Pewpewarrows 15y ago
  As opposed to? It's very rare to ever see a completely unique idea. I guarantee that just about every product you use on a day to day basis is a derivative of a derivative of a derivative of the original concept. Taking a core product and improving it is one of the main pieces of advice in this community. I don't see why there should be any negative connotation for a larger business doing it as well. And for the record, I don't see a single product on the left-hand side of that list that wasn't "in response", "playing catch-up", or a derivative idea from someone else's hard work.