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[Edit:] Things like native client and V8 might also be worth mentioning.
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And also, all the technologies created for distributed computing by google i.e. Mapreduce, GFS, BigTable. Currently most of the web is using Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra and other tools which are all inspired by google work.
Really? Those aren't acquisitions?
What about the mobile OS developed by Facebook on all these smartphones?
Android was an acquisition.
The Go language, Chrome OS, the recently announced redesign of the backend storage architecture that's supposed to replace MapReduce for some tasks. These are the things that I remember off the top of my head without going through the stuff they keep announcing all the time. [Edit:] Things like native client and V8 might also be worth mentioning.
GOOGLE IS MONSTERS!! rabble rabble rabble.
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And also, all the technologies created for distributed computing by google i.e. Mapreduce, GFS, BigTable. Currently most of the web is using Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra and other tools which are all inspired by google work.
Really? Those aren't acquisitions?
How about that Chrome, with multi-process tabs + Google Apps, is really a stealth web operating system? Its surprising that wasn't mentioned...
This is a really weak submission.
I think Google still innovate in that, as other commenters have noted, they're creating some interesting file system and database solutions. However, these (among others) are infrastructural contributions to the backend. I think the article is talking about innovation from the average consumer's perspective. I remember speaking to a friend of mine when Google released Wave. He said Wave was the first real home-grown…
The Go language, Chrome OS, the recently announced redesign of the backend storage architecture that's supposed to replace MapReduce for some tasks. These are the things that I remember off the top of my head without going through the stuff they keep announcing all the time. [Edit:] Things like native client and V8 might also be worth mentioning.
Furthermore Google hosts jquery files on its servers, which for many people is a godsend. While it is a simple thing to implement, it ranks highly on how it benefits websites (and thus the end users of those websites)