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have we really seen innovation from google though?

- tensorflow, I think a huge innovation and a big win for google.

- great work in self driving cars, but that has yet to come to fruition.

- the tech behind gmail has also been really important to the web.

- chrome is great, though not a huge leap in innovation over what firefox was doing

a lot of their other products i would argue were just purchases from a company with a lot of money and weight such as:

- android

- youtube

- google maps (its my understanding that the creator wouldnt allow google to buy his company unless he could do this but i could be wrong)

so hmm, yes I would say they are innovative and we have seen some great innovations from them; though, not at break neck speeds a lot of people assume. curious to others thoughts

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MapReduce, Pregel, Spanner, Beam, Kubernetes. Actually, I'm pretty sure Google innovations are endless or close enough to make no difference.

[screye → scarejunba]

Remove Dean and Ghemawat from Google and I wonder how big this list would be.

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Re: Chrome, it started with webkit, from Safari, (and from KHTML and Konqueror).