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throwaways885 on Sept 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tables: Tracking work for teams

Area 120 is definitely not a bunch of random people coming together. The projects there are fully funded and do have corporate backing. They launch separate from the rest of Google, with the positive end result being absorbed by another team into a fully supported product.

baskire on Sept 22, 2020 [–]

Name one project that’s lived long term that came out of a120?

By lived I do mean no changes to end user for the absorption into another team.

surajrmal on Sept 22, 2020 | | [–]

Perhaps not a perfect example but Reply by Google seemingly got integrated into Android itself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_(Google)

mav3rick on Sept 22, 2020 | | [–]

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