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> The only two real big success products to come from Google that are still around are Search and Gmail. Chrome. Photos. Hadoop. Kubernetes. Brain. Spanner. T

> The only two real big success products to come from Google that are still around are Search and Gmail. Chrome. Photos. Hadoop. Kubernetes. Brain. Spanner. T in GPT (Transformers). And lots more. Google's real contribution was internet scale systems and how to run them reliably.

pcdevils 3y ago
Google photos was spawned from Picasa, which they bought https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109121493116979168 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109121493116979168
- gowld 3y ago
  Photos totally replaced Picasa, including, you know, replacing a local desktop app with a web/cloud app.
murki 3y ago
Google Photos came from the acquisition of Flock (via Bump) which was a mobile photo organizing and sharing app https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/31/google-to-close-bump-and-flock-its-recently-acquired-file-sharing-apps/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/31/google-to-close-bump-and-f...
dgacmu 3y ago
Hadoop didn't come from Google, it came from more like Yahoo, who wanted an open source clone of Google's mapreduce framework. (Yahoo was paying Doug's salary, at least). MapReduce was deprecated inside Google several years ago in favor of Flume (think "apache beam" in the open source world). I point this out because google has had a lot of innovations that aren't necessarily now _products_.