It struck me the other day that certain Google products I use reminded me of some other products out there, except that the Google ones were just a tad off, either in features or look-and-feel. OS X's Dashboard widgets look more polished than Google Desktop Gadgets, and 37Signal's Backpack looks better and does more than Google Calendar.
Given that both Blogger and Google Maps (or YouTube, for that matter) were brought in through acquisition, what are the truly great user products that Google has developed in-house?...GMail?...It clearly builds great infrastructure (MapReduce, GFS, BigTable, even Search..as a platform for other products, like Desktop or GMail or Book), but what about inspired user products?
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