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For the people who want Google to be split up, it seems that it already is! You can look at this list of apps as a list of single startups that launched and fai
by q-rews 5y ago
For the people who want Google to be split up, it seems that it already is! You can look at this list of apps as a list of single startups that launched and failed. They’re all unrelated to each other; At most they share a “Login with Google” button and Google as a VC.
Edit: Oh, let’s not forget Google also bought Meebo and buried it right away. Good times.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoMeebo was basically my sole always-pinned tab until the day Google bought and killed it. :|
- reiichiroh 5y agoI’d forgotten about Meebo and how well it worked. Going to the domain still has a farewell message saying it was acquired in 2012. Hilariously the link they tell you to go to is for Google Plus and results in a 404 error.
- perryizgr8 5y agoBut many of those startups didn't fail! They were shut down despite having many users and may have been profitable as a startup. If hangouts was a startup, it would be more valuable than slack or discord. Instead it got shut down and replaced by a far inferior product.