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Google -- solved a single very important problem really well by applying a well known tool (SVD and graph networks) to a novel example, also made android, other
by forkandwait 13y ago
Google -- solved a single very important problem really well by applying a well known tool (SVD and graph networks) to a novel example, also made android, otherwise not very exciting.
Furthermore, brick and mortar problems are hard -- things break, rot, get lost, require staff to move them around, etc. Not to poo-poo Google or any other pure software company, but it isn't harder because its on a computer, it's actually easier.
- gbog 13y ago> not very exciting So you are "unexcited" by Glass, Loons, Earth/map/streetview, Go, etc.?
- forkandwait 13y agoStreetview is cool. I guess I am impressed by good navigation algorithms. Loons, glass, Go, lots of aerial data -- yeah, impressive, sure.
- sliverstorm 13y agoThey don't really make any money on those things, at least yet.
- agotterer 13y agoAnd lets not forget self driving cars
- enraged_camel 13y ago>also made android This is a common misconception. Google didn't "make" Android. They acquired it by purchasing Android, Inc.
- jordanthoms 13y agoAt an early stage, and incubating them for years before they told the world what they were working on.