From the list of Google acquisitions, how many of them could you actually consider successes?

Clearly there are a few cases where things have gone horribly wrong ... where have things gone horribly right?

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Today's rofflecopter:

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Today's fact of the day: avoid using the word "nonce" in your web applications. We were using it for:

"In cryptography, a nonce is a random, arbitrary number that is generated for security purposes and is used one time only."

But in the UK:

British slang word nonce, meaning a sex offender.
Posted by roy on October 10, 2007 at 10:40 AM in Ramblings | 3 Comments

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Comment posted on October 10th, 2007 at 10:26 PM
you forget urchin.
Comment posted on October 10th, 2007 at 10:54 PM
urchin was one of the ones that was linked as "horribly wrong" :)

han (guest)

Comment posted on October 10th, 2007 at 12:37 PM
hahaha i totally didn't get that.