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> google.com, youtube, chrome, android, gmail, google map etc Of those, it's 50/50. The acquisitions were YT, Android, Maps. Search was obviously Google's orig
by vitus 1y ago
> google.com, youtube, chrome, android, gmail, google map etc
Of those, it's 50/50. The acquisitions were YT, Android, Maps. Search was obviously Google's original product, Chrome was an in-house effort to rejuvenate the web after IE had caused years of stagnation, and Gmail famously started as a 20% project.
There are of course criticisms that Google has not really created any major (say, billion-user) in-house products in the past 15 years.
- ppseafield 1y agoChrome's engine was WebKit originally, which they then forked. Not an acquisition, but benefitted greatly from prior work.
- wslh 1y agoIndeed Chrome included many relatively small acquisitions to be built. For example, GreenBorder for sandboxing and Skia for the 2D graphics engine. At that time sandboxing was novel for a browser.