Google Innovation Debate
Comments debate whether Google pioneered innovations internally via 20% time and side projects (e.g., Gmail, Go) or primarily through acquisitions, contrasting it with startups and criticizing repetitive HN posts about Google.
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Google pioneered something done before Google existed?
Yes. And so did google.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1706814
Even Google created something similar.. maybe for internal ideas.
it is not Google but two Google engineers working on this in their 20% 'side project' time
Nobody thought so when Google started!
stop posting about google its not about "hacking" and creating things its about ads, you yet-another-google-wannabe-fagot. all things we know were fucking bought you all like re-posting very old "news" here. wanna increase your karma to success in next yc applicatiob round?! so please digg xerox parc whatever dead old news and post instead. people created something at that days. they added fucking value as you marketoid html writers use to say
stop posting about google its not about "hacking" and creating things its about ads, you yet-another-google-wannabe-fagot. all things we know were fucking bought you all like re-posting very old "news" here. wanna increase your karma to success in next yc applicatiob round?! so please digg xerox parc whatever dead old news and post instead. people created something at that days. they added fucking value as you marketoid html writers use to say
I worked on the front page at google around 10 years ago. It was all those things you describe back then too. And at least then there were not multiple reviews/meetings or lawyers involved in releasing something like this. If it's still the same then this probably started as a lunch time conversation and was implemented before lunch the next day.
How is google anything like a startup?
Does this mean that google was not an innovator?