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Youtube? Android? Maps? All extremely succesfull platforms/products. But yeah, they are falling behind slowely.
by holoduke 3y ago
Youtube? Android? Maps? All extremely succesfull platforms/products.
But yeah, they are falling behind slowely.
- toomim 3y agoYoutube and Android were bought. Maps is the only one he's missing after Search and Gmail.
- throaway3432 3y agoMaps was also bought
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoGoogle Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at Sydney-based Where 2 Technologies. It was first designed to be separately downloaded by users, but the company later pitched the idea for a purely Web-based product to Google management, changing the method of distribution.
- toomim 3y agoThe web version was still developed in-house. I guess we can call maps "half-built, half-bought."
- AlbertCory 3y agoFor Maps, they bought Keyhole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps and Brian McClendon was the head of Geo for a long time.
- defrost 3y agoKeyhole and Where 2 Technologies. Both had some crossover with ERMapper.
- AlbertCory 3y agoRight. BAM (as he was called) was the one who stuck, for a long time.
- dilyevsky 3y agoAt the time android was bought they were building completely different thing and had like 3k lines of code
- throaway3432 3y agoThese are all acquired products.