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> Of the products you listed, Youtube is the only one that I think is really orthogonal in the sense that it could bring in significant revenue if google's core product were disrupted.

Not to be too picky, but instead of "orthogonal" independent would be better. Or independent does imply orthogonal, but orthogonal does not imply independent. Orthogonal does imply independent in the Gaussian case.



Good catch, I forgot that there was an actual definition of orthogonal that could apply under the circumstances.




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