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[echelon]

Some of Google's best business units were acquisitions.

YouTube, Google Maps/Earth, Android, DoubeClick, DeepMind, Firebase, HTC (Pixel)

Don't discount Google's M&A game.

[griomnib → echelon]

They kill more than they allow to live, and doubleclick slowly hollowed out Google search by skewing incentives away from great content to maximizing display revenue via link bait.

Doubleclick is to Google what McDonald Douglas’s is to Boeing.

[evilduck → echelon]

Are any of those from the last decade? They acquired them when they were a different company.

[mrpippy → echelon]

Don’t forget Docs (Wordly)