[jase_coop]

Have Google really built Google+ out of a real human need/problem? I don't think so.

I'm not excusing Facebook and how they make money today. These aren't the same motives that influenced their reason for being, which were a lot more focused on people and universities.

[sek]

> Have Google really built a product out of a real human need/problem?

Are you a troll?

[smoove]

Maybe he is too young to remember the pre-google search experience ;)

[cyber]

Yes. Calendar. It was built because the purchased solution sucked. (And was insecure. Passwords in a flat file in one's home directory?)

Gmail also comes the closest of any webmail interfaces to MH.