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jgilliam
on June 5, 2009
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A hundred million mistakes: Microsoft's Bing searc...
Microsoft's DNA is to copy or buy things, it's simply what they do. It started with QDOS/86DOS.
ssn
on June 5, 2009
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If you look at Google's top products, most of them come from startups they bought: YouTube, Blogger, Docs, Maps, Earth...
I can only think of GMail and Reader as products that were originally developed inside.
pg
on June 6, 2009
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I believe Google Search was developed internally.
jimboyoungblood
on June 6, 2009
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Really? I thought it was licensed from Stanford.
TJensen
on June 6, 2009
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The technology was built by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as part of their studies at Standford. Google did not just buy their page rank algorithms.
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