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by century19 804 days ago
You don’t consider Maps a Google product? I guess there was some tech acquisition part there.
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Everything else were acquisitions and all the self made products were a failure.
What about g suite?

Google drive, docs, sheets, photo, the biz facing tools. Those are all successful.

Acquisitions
The acquisitions were kiddie toys compared with what gsuite is today. Ditto for YouTube.

my source: I was there and I'm friends with 100s of the people involved, and saw firsthand how hard everyone worked.