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    9 months ago

    I can’t pinpoint exactly when the fall started.

    In my opinion, it was when anti-trust laws did not trigger upon Google acquiring YouTube because Google Video couldn’t compete. That meant it was open season on start-ups that otherwise might have grown to kill Google or other big tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.

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        9 months ago

        See List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet for the graveyard list. Sorting by Price helps. Some other notable companies that Google acquired rather than compete with:

        • Nest Labs (home automation)
        • DropCam (home automation)
        • DoubleClick (advertisement)
        • FitBit (wearables)
        • Waze (GPS navigation)
        • Skybox Imaging (satellite mapping)
        • Like.com (shopping)
        • Meebo (social network)
        • GrandCentral (VOIP)
        • Picasa (photographry)
        • Tenor (GIF search)
        • PhotoMath (LLM; became Bard)