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> if I grouped google products, I think successful and launched before 2006 would be the same

In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion.[11]

Google Maps was launched in February 2005.[2]

These are the last 2 Google products I use

Search got replaced by DDG then Ecosia Chrome by Firefox Gmail by my own mail server My Pixel 2 ran out of security coverage and sick of buying a new phone every 2 years I went to an iphone xs

Youtube and Maps are the only two sticky products left and both came about when I was in high school

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From what I observe Google Photos is quite popular. It's from 2015.

For me, Google Photos started a bit earlier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa

A great product, its too bad it was discontinued. I much prefered it over lightroom.

I think it was Bump Photoroll not Picasa that became Google Photos: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bump

Because of android lockins. Not because it's a great product imo.

Have you used it? The search is so good, I never have to dig through photo grids anymore.

The creation of Google Photos was basically an act of mutiny by David Lieb.

He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway. Eventually resorting to back-channeling to Larry in order to get him to champion the project.

He tells the story in an episode of the podcast "The Social Radars."

Pretty good listen.

> He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway.

By G+ leadership - Vic Gundotra.

> my own mail server

This is hardly reproductible. I guess that the standard place people go after gmail is fastmail.

But getting a free equivalent is hard (at least I do not know any). I could host my mail but this is hard work and monitoring.

Agreed.

Gmail, GDocs, and GAnalytics have been the hardest replace. I can't find a reasonable free alt. to those.

You can give HedgeDoc (https://hedgedoc.org/) a try as a replacement for Google Docs.

It is the one that works best for concurrent editing IMO (but it is markdown which can be a problem for some)

definitely protonmail for sure

Isn’t ecosia just a frontend to Google ?

bing

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