Youtube, hate it or not, is really good. The amount of data they have to handle everyday is on different level.
replyIMO google maps and google earth were revolutionary when they came out. And maps stayed well ahead of competition for many many years.
replyI'm one of those few that liked Google Wave!
replyThere are ones of you!
replyMaps was originally an acquisition.
replyBoth were acquisitions.
replyIsn't Waymo the state of the art?
replyThey’re still the same price as an uber and there’s no way to actually order one, it’s all random. I don’t understand why… like I actively would prefer them. If they were available so instead I find myself reaching for the cybercabs instead at half the price.
replyApp Engine was good for its time, and I don't think that was an acquisition. Similarly, Cloud Storage and Google Cloud in general are pretty good products.
replyI started using AWS when EC2 and S3 first came out, but was forced to switch to Gcloud by the most recent company I joined. I was pleasantly surprised. In many ways it's more techie-focused than AWS, which is more enterprise-focused. And their managed Kubernetes is second to none.
Chrome was pretty great as well, it was desperately needed.
replyGoogle Chrome didn't start from scratch. Blink came from WebKit which came from KDE's KHTML. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine) , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
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