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bismark
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Google Flights was an acquisition of ITA.
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rcar
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Firebase was an acquisition too.
stabbles
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Youtube too
eecc
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Tensorflow was also an aquihire.
fizwhiz
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You're conflating Google Brain with Deepmind. Tensorflow was decidedly
not
an "acquihire".
dekhn
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this is not correct. TF was originated and written by Jeff Dean and some other folks after their experience with distbelief.
etatoby
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wasn't Docs an acquisition too? dunno about Sheets but it wouldn't surprise me at this point
dekhn
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yes, docs came from writely. sheets came from xl2web.
cromwellian
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Not the application itself. ITA was mainly acquired for their data, Flights was developed from the ground up.
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