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>It's a sad fact that Google became more of a follower than innovator recently.

Haven't they always been a do x good company? Web search and email were around for years before google showed up.



Google disrupted the search market. Sure, the basic idea of searching the web wasn't new, but Google did it so much better than anyone else. Since then, they haven't done anything at all disruptive. They've just been copying other people's products and hoping their huge size will let them win.


Gmail was pretty disruptive, not to mention Chrome which reignited the browser wars in a way that Firefox never really did...




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