Google+ Cost $585 Million to Build

Google+ Cost $585 Million to Build(thenextweb.com)

10 points by joshuahays 14 years ago | 6 comments

ianterrell 14 years ago |

Misleading to the extreme. It's not like the employees who built Google+ aren't producing value on other projects—now through code reuse, and in the future more directly.

joshuahays 14 years ago | |

I agree, it is a bit extreme. However, they did say it was a 'ballpark'.

jhack 14 years ago |

Why did they include the On2 purchase? Does Google+ have WebM/VP8 features I didn't hear about?

simonsarris 14 years ago | |

The Hangouts part where you video chat with many people I suppose.

ktsmith 14 years ago | | |

Supposedly that's still using Vidyo as it requires the google talk video plugin right now. The WebM stuff is coming down the road.

http://gigaom.com/video/google-hangouts-technology/