OMG WTF Google stole someone’s idea!!!!11
I read an article today on google reader shared by Dave. The gist of it was that, *gasp*, Google made an app that was a clone of another app. It seems Google has since taken down their version of this. What baffles me about this is how anyone is shocked. I mean, it’s not like Google hasn’t cloned any other web application before. Maybe I’m wrong and Google was the first to make an online email service. Oh, and of course I can’t forget when Google was the first to unveil an online service to get maps and directions online. They were also very innovative in being the first to provide a suite of office products online. Also, being the first to market with their social networking service, they’re now the top social networking service in the world.
Google is successful not because they came up with the best ideas but because they have a large brain trust that can better execute existing ideas. They didn’t invent the search engine, they made it cleaner. They didn’t invent online email, they made it easier. They didn’t invent online maps, they made it sleeker. Google didn’t invent a lot of the online products you use: Google made the online products you use better.
