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Google owns the stuff you make during 20% time, iirc, so they use it as a feeder for new products. Allegedly (I can't verify, but can't see why they'd lie) GMa

Google owns the stuff you make during 20% time, iirc, so they use it as a feeder for new products. Allegedly (I can't verify, but can't see why they'd lie) GMail, Google Maps and AdSense were all born out of people's 20% time and Google just swooped in and turned them into full on products. It might be worth staying #3 in cloud if they could pull off products like that again. I can't help but notice that those products are all old, though.

propogandist 5y ago
>Google Maps Google Maps started off as KeyHole, a technology company that was funded by In-Q-Tel aka the VC arm of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it was acquired by Google. https://www.iqt.org/news/in-q-tel-announces-strategic-investment-in-keyhole/ https://www.iqt.org/news/in-q-tel-announces-strategic-invest... https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...
pflanze 5y ago
From all I can tell, Google Maps was not started from within Google, but started in early 2003 as Where 2 Technologies [1] and was purchased by Google in October 2004 [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Rasmussen_(software_developer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Rasmussen_(software_devel..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Eilstrup_Rasmussen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Eilstrup_Rasmussen [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_maps#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_maps#History