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by chatmasta 997 days ago
The only successful products I can think of from Google that were entirely of their own making are Google Search, GMail, and Chrome. Their other successes all came from acquisitions, like YouTube, Maps (KeyHole), Docs (Writely), Android, etc. They deserve some credit for their cultivation and maintenance of these products, but they did not create them.
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Chrome was based on Webkit, which I think was associated with the K Desktop Environment project.
Webkit is a fork of KHTML (part of Konqueror from KDE) created by Apple.
Their main product is ads
And to their credit, they are remarkably good at projectile vomiting that garbage all across the internet
And the acquisition of Doubleclick was very helpful for that product...