Comment by whstl
7 hours ago
Other poster is correct, it was a 20% project, so it didn't even cost Google any money to acquire, which is crazy.
I remember it getting absolutely destroyed by Spam at some point. Then they tried some redesigns, and an integration with Google+ that caused more problems than it solved. Each one of these events drove people to other websites.
Also, the implementation and infrastructure was a total shit show.
True, its downtimes predated the Twitter fail whale.
Interestingly, the first version used ASP.NET, visible in the .aspx domains, which really deviated from other Google tech.
What is (and was) Google tech? I naively thought Google didn't have a praised stack.
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Yeah, internally it was, uh, an issue.
Just before launch there was a attempt to hide that it was google.