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This used to be Google's approach. Make a shit-ton of things, see which ones caught on, then expand them. 20% time, Google Labs etc were all expressions of this
by v21 15y ago
This used to be Google's approach. Make a shit-ton of things, see which ones caught on, then expand them. 20% time, Google Labs etc were all expressions of this. Which they've been moving away from now - as Larry Page says, they're "putting more wood behind fewer arrows".
- sriramk 15y agoPost author here. Google is on the other end of the spectrum ( or used to be). Elsewhere in this thread, someone made a good point of trying to find a balance.