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Youtube and Android were bought. Maps is the only one he's missing after Search and Gmail.
by toomim 3y ago
Youtube 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