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Medicine on April 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

google maps was an acquired product. It was modified to work in the browser.

its_so_on on April 24, 2012 [–]

they acquired the data because of the browser trick; that's why decided to get into doing that. look it up.

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