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> if I grouped google products, I think successful and launched before 2006 would be the same In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion.[
by ikt 3y ago
> if I grouped google products, I think successful and launched before 2006 would be the same
In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion.[11]
Google Maps was launched in February 2005.[2]
These are the last 2 Google products I use
Search got replaced by DDG then Ecosia
Chrome by Firefox
Gmail by my own mail server
My Pixel 2 ran out of security coverage and sick of buying a new phone every 2 years I went to an iphone xs
Youtube and Maps are the only two sticky products left and both came about when I was in high school
- esprehn 3y agoFrom what I observe Google Photos is quite popular. It's from 2015.
- runnerup 3y agoFor me, Google Photos started a bit earlier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa
- griffinkelly 3y agoA great product, its too bad it was discontinued. I much prefered it over lightroom.
- esprehn 3y agoI think it was Bump Photoroll not Picasa that became Google Photos: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bump https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bump
- ohashi 3y agoBecause of android lockins. Not because it's a great product imo.
- tadfisher 3y agoHave you used it? The search is so good, I never have to dig through photo grids anymore.
- el_nahual 3y agoThe creation of Google Photos was basically an act of mutiny by David Lieb. He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway. Eventually resorting to back-channeling to Larry in order to get him to champion the project. He tells the story in an episode of the podcast "The Social Radars." Pretty good listen.
- achow 3y ago> He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway. By G+ leadership - Vic Gundotra.
- popol12 3y agoIsn’t ecosia just a frontend to Google ?
- somsak2 3y agobing
- BrandoElFollito 3y ago> my own mail server This is hardly reproductible. I guess that the standard place people go after gmail is fastmail. But getting a free equivalent is hard (at least I do not know any). I could host my mail but this is hard work and monitoring.
- nicehill 3y agoAgreed. Gmail, GDocs, and GAnalytics have been the hardest replace. I can't find a reasonable free alt. to those.
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoYou can give HedgeDoc (https://hedgedoc.org/ https://hedgedoc.org/) a try as a replacement for Google Docs. It is the one that works best for concurrent editing IMO (but it is markdown which can be a problem for some)
- ikt 3y agodefinitely protonmail for sure