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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Adieu to Google Answers

It seems Google will close the Google Answers


Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time -- and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product. Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here. The project started with a rough idea from Larry Page, and a small 4-person team turned it into reality in less than 4 months. For two new grads, it was a crash course in building a scalable product, responding to customer requests, and discovering what questions are on people's minds

I think that Google's innovation to the Internet is admirable. And offering their applications for our pleasure is a great thing. I am sure their experience in Google Answer will help them create more innovative application in the future


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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Google Gdrive Client Leaked

I’ve been able to get hold of Google’s internal Gdrive client, named “Platypus"* (information on the project leaked a while ago). Please note that Gdrive, from what it looks like, is not a product for general release, but a way for Google employees to store and share files.

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