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Maybe that's why Google has made a few dozen amazing things while FB has made basically one thing and acquired the rest. A culture that respects engineering lea
by civilized 5y ago
Maybe that's why Google has made a few dozen amazing things while FB has made basically one thing and acquired the rest. A culture that respects engineering leadership.
- svachalek 5y agoIt's hard to think of something amazing from Google that they didn't acquire other than the search engine. Maps, YouTube, Android were all acquisitions. Most Google internal projects are future entries in the "Google graveyard". The better stuff I can think of is mostly deep technical stuff like Map Reduce built to support search. Facebook has also done fairly well with things that are pillars to support the (formerly) namesake product.
- civilized 5y agoGMail, various chat things, GSuite, Google Brain, Google Translate. Maps, Android, and YouTube were all massively developed and scaled after the initial acquisition.
- surajrmal 5y agoChrome, Gmail, drive, Chromecast, duo, call screening. There are plenty of entirely home grown products that have succeeded. Discounting products which have had the vast majority of their growth and featureset built out while under Google is also a but dismissive of it's role in making them successful.
- tibyat 5y agoduo has been successful?
- pyb 5y agoMost of their post-2000 successful products stem from acquisitions: Docs, Maps, Waymo...
- civilized 5y agoDocs was an acquisition? From where?
- nostrademons 5y agoWritely. Company was called Upstartle.
- mattkevan 5y agoStarted out as a product called Writely in the mid-2000s. Got bought by Google not long afterwards. Not sure if it’s still the case but until fairly recently you could still see writely in the different domains Docs cycles through when logging in.
- bradneuberg 5y agoVersion 1 was from a company named Writely. Google massively refactored and rewrote it afterwards though.