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They have a handful of truly wonderful products, but for everything good you just listed, there's at least 2-3 things that have been shuttered because they were poorly executed, or are currently struggling (Google Cloud). Android is hardly a product either, the Pixel 4 is a product, but Android is an avenue to sell apps on their app store and integrate their data gathering services for targeted advertising, and they didn't even build it. Google didn't build YouTube, it was already the largest video sharing platform in the world when they bought it. Analytics is probably good, I haven't used it.

> gmail is the best

That's a very subjective statement. I don't think gmail is the best webmail out there, but it's certainly one of them. It's also one of the oldest. It also adds the contents of all your emails to their profiling service.

I stand by my statement that Google is terrible at building products, they've only built half of the things you listed and bought the rest. One of them could barely be counted as a success (Cloud), and another isn't a product (Android)




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