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What popular ‘cool’ things are from Google these days? I can only think of the decade(s) old Search (the money making part bought), Maps (bought), Mail, Youtube (bought), maybe Android (bought). Is there another ‘cool’ billion+ used one? Anything even semi-recent?

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(No insider information, but) I suspect Drive, Photos, Assistant are all 1B+. Most of the new stuff from Google is features on existing products (which cover such broad markets that it's almost pointless launching major stuff as often).

Are those a billion plus by choice or by being preinstalled on Android? If by default the photos you take on an Android end up in Photos, everyone who has Photos in Photos is hardly a voluntary Photos user.

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