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Novice asked in Computers & InternetInternet · 1 decade ago

Which google products come from Google employees' 20% spare-time?

I'm looking for specific product names, such as Gmail, Gmaps, etc.

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  • LEM
    1 decade ago
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    There really is only one product that came from the "spare-time" idea. Which is Orkut the social networking product, named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. Sadly the product has been a total flop in the US with only 4 million users.

    Other popular products from google weren’t even built by google but purchased from other companies:

    Google maps is actually Keyhole Technology.

    Blogger and Picasa were also an acquisition.

    Source(s): http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/09/business/or... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut
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