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Google's Biggest Flops and Failures

GOOGLE'S BIGGEST PRODUCT FLOPS & FAILURES Google Graveyard Despite being one of the most profitable companies in the world, Google Inc. has had its share of total failures. In addition to its flagship search engine, Google has launched dozens of products over the years – many of which are now dead, gone and largely unmourned. Let's take a walk through the Google graveyard. R.I.P. 2005-2005 GOOGLE X Microsolt Internet Eplorer Vew Favortes Tools Hep Hetory - Google X was a version of the Google home page modeled after the Mac OS user interface. The bottom of the page read, "Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you." It's hard to imagine Google crafting an ode to Apple today, and in fact Google X only survived for one day. -02 AOSerch Fevortes Jabout blark Google Coogle Search m feeling Lucky Eeedbec- Dacas-Ite-Aout Google oes arered Volets are ue 0SXrocks Homage to you aboutblank -Microsolt Internet Explorer * Ek Ve Fevortes Toos Helo R.I.P. 2002-2009 O a A Osech Greortes tory . GOOGLE CATALOG ogle E Google Catalogs, a search engine for print catalogs, languished in Beta from 2001 until 2009, when Google put it out of its misery - finally realizing the uselessness of a product that puts catalogs online, when only people who can't use the Internet still use catalogs. Aechie McPhes Seea Cos e e Lrks R.I.P. 2005-2008 t ternet Eplorer Preferences. Performance data. Don't accelerate this webste Help WEB ACCELERATOR Google's downloadable Web Accelerator (a 0Ogle Google Web Ac 10serh Grerortes e. 36.3 seconds saved Stoo Google Web Accelerator Seve Preferences proxy server used to reduce web access times via caching technologies) had some dealbreaker bugs and privacy issues - for example, it prevented users from watching YouTube videos. Google axed it in 2008. preferences when finished Specily your type of Intemet connection tion OOSL Ocable Modem / TI Enable prefetching of pages so they come up faster B Enable Prefetching Highlight prefetched links with a double-underline (example link) C rternet g Pages Google R.I.P. 2005-2007 VIDEO PLAYER EX Google Video Player was a standalone desktop application for playing Google video files. But it turned out the world didn't need yet another video player - Google hasn't fared well at entering a market late unless it offers a clear improvement on existing products. aboutblank-Microsoft Internet Eplorer Fle Edt Vew Favortes Tools Hep Oa A QSearch rerortes retary 3. Back R.I.P. 2002-2006 Google ess e) about blank GOOGLE ANSWERS Aska question Set your price. Get your answer O Geegle Aec Answers Let ier Google's answer to Yahoo Answers employed paid researchers and asked users to bid for a response to their question. But users, it seems, preferred their information free, even if free often means questionable. T Yor seton conplere ted A Oto/ Dept-Etr your Outon Tet m enet Searh Geegle Aen f R.I.P. 2009-2010 GOOGLE WAVE 601 71010 718 ROR AM PAE Bome C ne D Se et Google Wave was supposed to reinvent email, bringing old-fashioned electronic mail together with new technologies like instant messaging and social media. It launched to huge hype, but users found it overly compli- cated and failed to ride the wave. R.I.P. 2008-2010 Micresolt Interoet Esplorer WIKI SEARCH CAMaa Sies ine Smal n All SearchWai notes lew Ferortes Took Hep -O a A earch evartes tory SearchWiki turned Google Search into a wiki - logged-in users could move results up and down or delete results they didn't like. Searchers can still star a result to mark it as a favorite, but the other wiki options went to the chopping block. about blark by ing 68 notes recorded for searchwki ca Google narsonaiseter A net archWa-W seaches h rchiWi t person Ine coAolhewstetndwteetic ecehos comp OS DI Scamme aboutblank- Microsolt Internet Explorer R.I.P. 2006-2009 d Vew Favorites Tools Heb +O a A Osearch GFavortes 3tory - o unks " GOOGLE AUDIO ADS lout blark Gosgle Google hoped Audio Ads, a radio-based advertising platform, would offer the powerful metrics of search-based advertis- ing to broadcasters. But measuring perfor- mance proved much more difficult, and in 2009 Google left Audio Ads behind. t An pecalOfferCa S yourtdonpegn Oferes ne0.200 eingcoecve wycoveyyuressage ww.ns ofantal en Wahch a Deme Esperimentwhuidng ampaignand geta m and eo en antwhey e and where did my O when ade play O Mewdeo aboutblark- Mcrosolt Internet Explorer Fle t Ve Farortes Tos Heb tad.+O 3 A Qrch Gfeates tory 3. Adessebot a R.I.P. 2005-2009 DODGEBALL dodgaball. Google bought Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service, in 2005. Its founder went on to leave Google and form Four- square, now the leader in the location-based space. Dodgeball is no more, but Google has launched a new mobile app, Latitude. O w Oww p vee 1 checked n ( ) h t y nd A' ma dodgeboll Floxl about blank-Microsoft Internet bplorer R.I.P. 2007-2009 Ed Ve Favortes Toos Heb +-O 2 A edh ravortes try . JAIKU about blark ethe Tour Cha glore Jaiku is to Twitter as Dodgeball is to Four- square? Google purchased the microblog- ging service (so named because posts resemble haiku) in 2007; it failed to take off, and Google has open-sourced the code and no longer actively develops it. ChiefTWIT Leo Laporte d Ro d AMV Pc Cl UCTWT FL 13 hae yurk OwmWT Ay tet a from ChiefTwIT Aahet R os neon indow E 1800uTc t TwNT F1 gng eCone aboutblank- Mcrosolt Internet bplorer Ple Ede Vew Fevortes Took Heb R.I.P. 2006-2009 Back O2 A Qserch avortes tory . about blak GOOGLE NOTEBOOK Notebook Lnks Google Notebook was a browser-based application that allowed users to cut, paste, save, and share text, links, and images from the web to a personal "notebook." This functionality has been replaced by Google Docs. Seach My Ntes Seach the We Sert Unfled nking Ntes 4Talent- BLOOMERS BO0S Cot t v Radsign Instal mutple versions oton your PC Tredosen er ten E Commert te n t pas.com- toeffen Rusitscha. Sadegtorder Jay Reund Comers with Drep Shadew Coe t Css Cane cs ORenys Reterence Lerary www.sa troly rernet R.I.P. 2006-2008 Mank-Microsoft Internet bplorer Vew Favortes Took He GOOGLE PAGE CREATOR O a A Qserdh rarortes tory . Google Page Creator was - you guessed it - a tool to help users create web pages, which were hosted on Google's servers. Google canned the product in 2008 to focus on Google Sites – not the first time it suffered from feature overlap. le Page Manager:ey ariarwa gongepages.com PNANI Done 5boutlak-Mosalt Internet bplorer Fe ta Ve Ferotes Took He R.I.P 2010-? GOOGLE BUZZ ebout ark gle buzz In another attempt to keep up with Twitter and Facebook, Google launched this social network as an opt-out service for Gmail users - many of whom reacted angrily. Can Buzz overcome privacy concerns and slow growth to avoid going the way of Wave? tyond status messages photos wdos and more tons abod e tvg yondteresting bin Gal y or pivatly M gton Secome PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/146101/top_10_google_flubs_flops_and_failures.html Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/lets-celebrate-googles-biggest-failures-48165 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products WordStream www.wordstream.com GOOGLE'S BIGGEST PRODUCT FLOPS & FAILURES Google Graveyard Despite being one of the most profitable companies in the world, Google Inc. has had its share of total failures. In addition to its flagship search engine, Google has launched dozens of products over the years – many of which are now dead, gone and largely unmourned. Let's take a walk through the Google graveyard. R.I.P. 2005-2005 GOOGLE X Microsolt Internet Eplorer Vew Favortes Tools Hep Hetory - Google X was a version of the Google home page modeled after the Mac OS user interface. The bottom of the page read, "Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you." It's hard to imagine Google crafting an ode to Apple today, and in fact Google X only survived for one day. -02 AOSerch Fevortes Jabout blark Google Coogle Search m feeling Lucky Eeedbec- Dacas-Ite-Aout Google oes arered Volets are ue 0SXrocks Homage to you aboutblank -Microsolt Internet Explorer * Ek Ve Fevortes Toos Helo R.I.P. 2002-2009 O a A Osech Greortes tory . GOOGLE CATALOG ogle E Google Catalogs, a search engine for print catalogs, languished in Beta from 2001 until 2009, when Google put it out of its misery - finally realizing the uselessness of a product that puts catalogs online, when only people who can't use the Internet still use catalogs. Aechie McPhes Seea Cos e e Lrks R.I.P. 2005-2008 t ternet Eplorer Preferences. Performance data. Don't accelerate this webste Help WEB ACCELERATOR Google's downloadable Web Accelerator (a 0Ogle Google Web Ac 10serh Grerortes e. 36.3 seconds saved Stoo Google Web Accelerator Seve Preferences proxy server used to reduce web access times via caching technologies) had some dealbreaker bugs and privacy issues - for example, it prevented users from watching YouTube videos. Google axed it in 2008. preferences when finished Specily your type of Intemet connection tion OOSL Ocable Modem / TI Enable prefetching of pages so they come up faster B Enable Prefetching Highlight prefetched links with a double-underline (example link) C rternet g Pages Google R.I.P. 2005-2007 VIDEO PLAYER EX Google Video Player was a standalone desktop application for playing Google video files. But it turned out the world didn't need yet another video player - Google hasn't fared well at entering a market late unless it offers a clear improvement on existing products. aboutblank-Microsoft Internet Eplorer Fle Edt Vew Favortes Tools Hep Oa A QSearch rerortes retary 3. Back R.I.P. 2002-2006 Google ess e) about blank GOOGLE ANSWERS Aska question Set your price. Get your answer O Geegle Aec Answers Let ier Google's answer to Yahoo Answers employed paid researchers and asked users to bid for a response to their question. But users, it seems, preferred their information free, even if free often means questionable. T Yor seton conplere ted A Oto/ Dept-Etr your Outon Tet m enet Searh Geegle Aen f R.I.P. 2009-2010 GOOGLE WAVE 601 71010 718 ROR AM PAE Bome C ne D Se et Google Wave was supposed to reinvent email, bringing old-fashioned electronic mail together with new technologies like instant messaging and social media. It launched to huge hype, but users found it overly compli- cated and failed to ride the wave. R.I.P. 2008-2010 Micresolt Interoet Esplorer WIKI SEARCH CAMaa Sies ine Smal n All SearchWai notes lew Ferortes Took Hep -O a A earch evartes tory SearchWiki turned Google Search into a wiki - logged-in users could move results up and down or delete results they didn't like. Searchers can still star a result to mark it as a favorite, but the other wiki options went to the chopping block. about blark by ing 68 notes recorded for searchwki ca Google narsonaiseter A net archWa-W seaches h rchiWi t person Ine coAolhewstetndwteetic ecehos comp OS DI Scamme aboutblank- Microsolt Internet Explorer R.I.P. 2006-2009 d Vew Favorites Tools Heb +O a A Osearch GFavortes 3tory - o unks " GOOGLE AUDIO ADS lout blark Gosgle Google hoped Audio Ads, a radio-based advertising platform, would offer the powerful metrics of search-based advertis- ing to broadcasters. But measuring perfor- mance proved much more difficult, and in 2009 Google left Audio Ads behind. t An pecalOfferCa S yourtdonpegn Oferes ne0.200 eingcoecve wycoveyyuressage ww.ns ofantal en Wahch a Deme Esperimentwhuidng ampaignand geta m and eo en antwhey e and where did my O when ade play O Mewdeo aboutblark- Mcrosolt Internet Explorer Fle t Ve Farortes Tos Heb tad.+O 3 A Qrch Gfeates tory 3. Adessebot a R.I.P. 2005-2009 DODGEBALL dodgaball. Google bought Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service, in 2005. Its founder went on to leave Google and form Four- square, now the leader in the location-based space. Dodgeball is no more, but Google has launched a new mobile app, Latitude. O w Oww p vee 1 checked n ( ) h t y nd A' ma dodgeboll Floxl about blank-Microsoft Internet bplorer R.I.P. 2007-2009 Ed Ve Favortes Toos Heb +-O 2 A edh ravortes try . JAIKU about blark ethe Tour Cha glore Jaiku is to Twitter as Dodgeball is to Four- square? Google purchased the microblog- ging service (so named because posts resemble haiku) in 2007; it failed to take off, and Google has open-sourced the code and no longer actively develops it. ChiefTWIT Leo Laporte d Ro d AMV Pc Cl UCTWT FL 13 hae yurk OwmWT Ay tet a from ChiefTwIT Aahet R os neon indow E 1800uTc t TwNT F1 gng eCone aboutblank- Mcrosolt Internet bplorer Ple Ede Vew Fevortes Took Heb R.I.P. 2006-2009 Back O2 A Qserch avortes tory . about blak GOOGLE NOTEBOOK Notebook Lnks Google Notebook was a browser-based application that allowed users to cut, paste, save, and share text, links, and images from the web to a personal "notebook." This functionality has been replaced by Google Docs. Seach My Ntes Seach the We Sert Unfled nking Ntes 4Talent- BLOOMERS BO0S Cot t v Radsign Instal mutple versions oton your PC Tredosen er ten E Commert te n t pas.com- toeffen Rusitscha. Sadegtorder Jay Reund Comers with Drep Shadew Coe t Css Cane cs ORenys Reterence Lerary www.sa troly rernet R.I.P. 2006-2008 Mank-Microsoft Internet bplorer Vew Favortes Took He GOOGLE PAGE CREATOR O a A Qserdh rarortes tory . Google Page Creator was - you guessed it - a tool to help users create web pages, which were hosted on Google's servers. Google canned the product in 2008 to focus on Google Sites – not the first time it suffered from feature overlap. le Page Manager:ey ariarwa gongepages.com PNANI Done 5boutlak-Mosalt Internet bplorer Fe ta Ve Ferotes Took He R.I.P 2010-? GOOGLE BUZZ ebout ark gle buzz In another attempt to keep up with Twitter and Facebook, Google launched this social network as an opt-out service for Gmail users - many of whom reacted angrily. Can Buzz overcome privacy concerns and slow growth to avoid going the way of Wave? tyond status messages photos wdos and more tons abod e tvg yondteresting bin Gal y or pivatly M gton Secome PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/146101/top_10_google_flubs_flops_and_failures.html Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/lets-celebrate-googles-biggest-failures-48165 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products WordStream www.wordstream.com GOOGLE'S BIGGEST PRODUCT FLOPS & FAILURES Google Graveyard Despite being one of the most profitable companies in the world, Google Inc. has had its share of total failures. In addition to its flagship search engine, Google has launched dozens of products over the years – many of which are now dead, gone and largely unmourned. Let's take a walk through the Google graveyard. R.I.P. 2005-2005 GOOGLE X Microsolt Internet Eplorer Vew Favortes Tools Hep Hetory - Google X was a version of the Google home page modeled after the Mac OS user interface. The bottom of the page read, "Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you." It's hard to imagine Google crafting an ode to Apple today, and in fact Google X only survived for one day. -02 AOSerch Fevortes Jabout blark Google Coogle Search m feeling Lucky Eeedbec- Dacas-Ite-Aout Google oes arered Volets are ue 0SXrocks Homage to you aboutblank -Microsolt Internet Explorer * Ek Ve Fevortes Toos Helo R.I.P. 2002-2009 O a A Osech Greortes tory . GOOGLE CATALOG ogle E Google Catalogs, a search engine for print catalogs, languished in Beta from 2001 until 2009, when Google put it out of its misery - finally realizing the uselessness of a product that puts catalogs online, when only people who can't use the Internet still use catalogs. Aechie McPhes Seea Cos e e Lrks R.I.P. 2005-2008 t ternet Eplorer Preferences. Performance data. Don't accelerate this webste Help WEB ACCELERATOR Google's downloadable Web Accelerator (a 0Ogle Google Web Ac 10serh Grerortes e. 36.3 seconds saved Stoo Google Web Accelerator Seve Preferences proxy server used to reduce web access times via caching technologies) had some dealbreaker bugs and privacy issues - for example, it prevented users from watching YouTube videos. Google axed it in 2008. preferences when finished Specily your type of Intemet connection tion OOSL Ocable Modem / TI Enable prefetching of pages so they come up faster B Enable Prefetching Highlight prefetched links with a double-underline (example link) C rternet g Pages Google R.I.P. 2005-2007 VIDEO PLAYER EX Google Video Player was a standalone desktop application for playing Google video files. But it turned out the world didn't need yet another video player - Google hasn't fared well at entering a market late unless it offers a clear improvement on existing products. aboutblank-Microsoft Internet Eplorer Fle Edt Vew Favortes Tools Hep Oa A QSearch rerortes retary 3. Back R.I.P. 2002-2006 Google ess e) about blank GOOGLE ANSWERS Aska question Set your price. Get your answer O Geegle Aec Answers Let ier Google's answer to Yahoo Answers employed paid researchers and asked users to bid for a response to their question. But users, it seems, preferred their information free, even if free often means questionable. T Yor seton conplere ted A Oto/ Dept-Etr your Outon Tet m enet Searh Geegle Aen f R.I.P. 2009-2010 GOOGLE WAVE 601 71010 718 ROR AM PAE Bome C ne D Se et Google Wave was supposed to reinvent email, bringing old-fashioned electronic mail together with new technologies like instant messaging and social media. It launched to huge hype, but users found it overly compli- cated and failed to ride the wave. R.I.P. 2008-2010 Micresolt Interoet Esplorer WIKI SEARCH CAMaa Sies ine Smal n All SearchWai notes lew Ferortes Took Hep -O a A earch evartes tory SearchWiki turned Google Search into a wiki - logged-in users could move results up and down or delete results they didn't like. Searchers can still star a result to mark it as a favorite, but the other wiki options went to the chopping block. about blark by ing 68 notes recorded for searchwki ca Google narsonaiseter A net archWa-W seaches h rchiWi t person Ine coAolhewstetndwteetic ecehos comp OS DI Scamme aboutblank- Microsolt Internet Explorer R.I.P. 2006-2009 d Vew Favorites Tools Heb +O a A Osearch GFavortes 3tory - o unks " GOOGLE AUDIO ADS lout blark Gosgle Google hoped Audio Ads, a radio-based advertising platform, would offer the powerful metrics of search-based advertis- ing to broadcasters. But measuring perfor- mance proved much more difficult, and in 2009 Google left Audio Ads behind. t An pecalOfferCa S yourtdonpegn Oferes ne0.200 eingcoecve wycoveyyuressage ww.ns ofantal en Wahch a Deme Esperimentwhuidng ampaignand geta m and eo en antwhey e and where did my O when ade play O Mewdeo aboutblark- Mcrosolt Internet Explorer Fle t Ve Farortes Tos Heb tad.+O 3 A Qrch Gfeates tory 3. Adessebot a R.I.P. 2005-2009 DODGEBALL dodgaball. Google bought Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service, in 2005. Its founder went on to leave Google and form Four- square, now the leader in the location-based space. Dodgeball is no more, but Google has launched a new mobile app, Latitude. O w Oww p vee 1 checked n ( ) h t y nd A' ma dodgeboll Floxl about blank-Microsoft Internet bplorer R.I.P. 2007-2009 Ed Ve Favortes Toos Heb +-O 2 A edh ravortes try . JAIKU about blark ethe Tour Cha glore Jaiku is to Twitter as Dodgeball is to Four- square? Google purchased the microblog- ging service (so named because posts resemble haiku) in 2007; it failed to take off, and Google has open-sourced the code and no longer actively develops it. ChiefTWIT Leo Laporte d Ro d AMV Pc Cl UCTWT FL 13 hae yurk OwmWT Ay tet a from ChiefTwIT Aahet R os neon indow E 1800uTc t TwNT F1 gng eCone aboutblank- Mcrosolt Internet bplorer Ple Ede Vew Fevortes Took Heb R.I.P. 2006-2009 Back O2 A Qserch avortes tory . about blak GOOGLE NOTEBOOK Notebook Lnks Google Notebook was a browser-based application that allowed users to cut, paste, save, and share text, links, and images from the web to a personal "notebook." This functionality has been replaced by Google Docs. Seach My Ntes Seach the We Sert Unfled nking Ntes 4Talent- BLOOMERS BO0S Cot t v Radsign Instal mutple versions oton your PC Tredosen er ten E Commert te n t pas.com- toeffen Rusitscha. Sadegtorder Jay Reund Comers with Drep Shadew Coe t Css Cane cs ORenys Reterence Lerary www.sa troly rernet R.I.P. 2006-2008 Mank-Microsoft Internet bplorer Vew Favortes Took He GOOGLE PAGE CREATOR O a A Qserdh rarortes tory . Google Page Creator was - you guessed it - a tool to help users create web pages, which were hosted on Google's servers. Google canned the product in 2008 to focus on Google Sites – not the first time it suffered from feature overlap. le Page Manager:ey ariarwa gongepages.com PNANI Done 5boutlak-Mosalt Internet bplorer Fe ta Ve Ferotes Took He R.I.P 2010-? GOOGLE BUZZ ebout ark gle buzz In another attempt to keep up with Twitter and Facebook, Google launched this social network as an opt-out service for Gmail users - many of whom reacted angrily. Can Buzz overcome privacy concerns and slow growth to avoid going the way of Wave? tyond status messages photos wdos and more tons abod e tvg yondteresting bin Gal y or pivatly M gton Secome PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/146101/top_10_google_flubs_flops_and_failures.html Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/lets-celebrate-googles-biggest-failures-48165 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products WordStream www.wordstream.com GOOGLE'S BIGGEST PRODUCT FLOPS & FAILURES Google Graveyard Despite being one of the most profitable companies in the world, Google Inc. has had its share of total failures. In addition to its flagship search engine, Google has launched dozens of products over the years – many of which are now dead, gone and largely unmourned. Let's take a walk through the Google graveyard. R.I.P. 2005-2005 GOOGLE X Microsolt Internet Eplorer Vew Favortes Tools Hep Hetory - Google X was a version of the Google home page modeled after the Mac OS user interface. The bottom of the page read, "Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you." It's hard to imagine Google crafting an ode to Apple today, and in fact Google X only survived for one day. -02 AOSerch Fevortes Jabout blark Google Coogle Search m feeling Lucky Eeedbec- Dacas-Ite-Aout Google oes arered Volets are ue 0SXrocks Homage to you aboutblank -Microsolt Internet Explorer * Ek Ve Fevortes Toos Helo R.I.P. 2002-2009 O a A Osech Greortes tory . GOOGLE CATALOG ogle E Google Catalogs, a search engine for print catalogs, languished in Beta from 2001 until 2009, when Google put it out of its misery - finally realizing the uselessness of a product that puts catalogs online, when only people who can't use the Internet still use catalogs. Aechie McPhes Seea Cos e e Lrks R.I.P. 2005-2008 t ternet Eplorer Preferences. Performance data. Don't accelerate this webste Help WEB ACCELERATOR Google's downloadable Web Accelerator (a 0Ogle Google Web Ac 10serh Grerortes e. 36.3 seconds saved Stoo Google Web Accelerator Seve Preferences proxy server used to reduce web access times via caching technologies) had some dealbreaker bugs and privacy issues - for example, it prevented users from watching YouTube videos. Google axed it in 2008. preferences when finished Specily your type of Intemet connection tion OOSL Ocable Modem / TI Enable prefetching of pages so they come up faster B Enable Prefetching Highlight prefetched links with a double-underline (example link) C rternet g Pages Google R.I.P. 2005-2007 VIDEO PLAYER EX Google Video Player was a standalone desktop application for playing Google video files. But it turned out the world didn't need yet another video player - Google hasn't fared well at entering a market late unless it offers a clear improvement on existing products. aboutblank-Microsoft Internet Eplorer Fle Edt Vew Favortes Tools Hep Oa A QSearch rerortes retary 3. Back R.I.P. 2002-2006 Google ess e) about blank GOOGLE ANSWERS Aska question Set your price. Get your answer O Geegle Aec Answers Let ier Google's answer to Yahoo Answers employed paid researchers and asked users to bid for a response to their question. But users, it seems, preferred their information free, even if free often means questionable. T Yor seton conplere ted A Oto/ Dept-Etr your Outon Tet m enet Searh Geegle Aen f R.I.P. 2009-2010 GOOGLE WAVE 601 71010 718 ROR AM PAE Bome C ne D Se et Google Wave was supposed to reinvent email, bringing old-fashioned electronic mail together with new technologies like instant messaging and social media. It launched to huge hype, but users found it overly compli- cated and failed to ride the wave. R.I.P. 2008-2010 Micresolt Interoet Esplorer WIKI SEARCH CAMaa Sies ine Smal n All SearchWai notes lew Ferortes Took Hep -O a A earch evartes tory SearchWiki turned Google Search into a wiki - logged-in users could move results up and down or delete results they didn't like. Searchers can still star a result to mark it as a favorite, but the other wiki options went to the chopping block. about blark by ing 68 notes recorded for searchwki ca Google narsonaiseter A net archWa-W seaches h rchiWi t person Ine coAolhewstetndwteetic ecehos comp OS DI Scamme aboutblank- Microsolt Internet Explorer R.I.P. 2006-2009 d Vew Favorites Tools Heb +O a A Osearch GFavortes 3tory - o unks " GOOGLE AUDIO ADS lout blark Gosgle Google hoped Audio Ads, a radio-based advertising platform, would offer the powerful metrics of search-based advertis- ing to broadcasters. But measuring perfor- mance proved much more difficult, and in 2009 Google left Audio Ads behind. t An pecalOfferCa S yourtdonpegn Oferes ne0.200 eingcoecve wycoveyyuressage ww.ns ofantal en Wahch a Deme Esperimentwhuidng ampaignand geta m and eo en antwhey e and where did my O when ade play O Mewdeo aboutblark- Mcrosolt Internet Explorer Fle t Ve Farortes Tos Heb tad.+O 3 A Qrch Gfeates tory 3. Adessebot a R.I.P. 2005-2009 DODGEBALL dodgaball. Google bought Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service, in 2005. Its founder went on to leave Google and form Four- square, now the leader in the location-based space. Dodgeball is no more, but Google has launched a new mobile app, Latitude. O w Oww p vee 1 checked n ( ) h t y nd A' ma dodgeboll Floxl about blank-Microsoft Internet bplorer R.I.P. 2007-2009 Ed Ve Favortes Toos Heb +-O 2 A edh ravortes try . JAIKU about blark ethe Tour Cha glore Jaiku is to Twitter as Dodgeball is to Four- square? Google purchased the microblog- ging service (so named because posts resemble haiku) in 2007; it failed to take off, and Google has open-sourced the code and no longer actively develops it. ChiefTWIT Leo Laporte d Ro d AMV Pc Cl UCTWT FL 13 hae yurk OwmWT Ay tet a from ChiefTwIT Aahet R os neon indow E 1800uTc t TwNT F1 gng eCone aboutblank- Mcrosolt Internet bplorer Ple Ede Vew Fevortes Took Heb R.I.P. 2006-2009 Back O2 A Qserch avortes tory . about blak GOOGLE NOTEBOOK Notebook Lnks Google Notebook was a browser-based application that allowed users to cut, paste, save, and share text, links, and images from the web to a personal "notebook." This functionality has been replaced by Google Docs. Seach My Ntes Seach the We Sert Unfled nking Ntes 4Talent- BLOOMERS BO0S Cot t v Radsign Instal mutple versions oton your PC Tredosen er ten E Commert te n t pas.com- toeffen Rusitscha. Sadegtorder Jay Reund Comers with Drep Shadew Coe t Css Cane cs ORenys Reterence Lerary www.sa troly rernet R.I.P. 2006-2008 Mank-Microsoft Internet bplorer Vew Favortes Took He GOOGLE PAGE CREATOR O a A Qserdh rarortes tory . Google Page Creator was - you guessed it - a tool to help users create web pages, which were hosted on Google's servers. Google canned the product in 2008 to focus on Google Sites – not the first time it suffered from feature overlap. le Page Manager:ey ariarwa gongepages.com PNANI Done 5boutlak-Mosalt Internet bplorer Fe ta Ve Ferotes Took He R.I.P 2010-? GOOGLE BUZZ ebout ark gle buzz In another attempt to keep up with Twitter and Facebook, Google launched this social network as an opt-out service for Gmail users - many of whom reacted angrily. Can Buzz overcome privacy concerns and slow growth to avoid going the way of Wave? tyond status messages photos wdos and more tons abod e tvg yondteresting bin Gal y or pivatly M gton Secome PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/146101/top_10_google_flubs_flops_and_failures.html Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/lets-celebrate-googles-biggest-failures-48165 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products WordStream www.wordstream.com GOOGLE'S BIGGEST PRODUCT FLOPS & FAILURES Google Graveyard Despite being one of the most profitable companies in the world, Google Inc. has had its share of total failures. In addition to its flagship search engine, Google has launched dozens of products over the years – many of which are now dead, gone and largely unmourned. Let's take a walk through the Google graveyard. R.I.P. 2005-2005 GOOGLE X Microsolt Internet Eplorer Vew Favortes Tools Hep Hetory - Google X was a version of the Google home page modeled after the Mac OS user interface. The bottom of the page read, "Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you." It's hard to imagine Google crafting an ode to Apple today, and in fact Google X only survived for one day. -02 AOSerch Fevortes Jabout blark Google Coogle Search m feeling Lucky Eeedbec- Dacas-Ite-Aout Google oes arered Volets are ue 0SXrocks Homage to you aboutblank -Microsolt Internet Explorer * Ek Ve Fevortes Toos Helo R.I.P. 2002-2009 O a A Osech Greortes tory . GOOGLE CATALOG ogle E Google Catalogs, a search engine for print catalogs, languished in Beta from 2001 until 2009, when Google put it out of its misery - finally realizing the uselessness of a product that puts catalogs online, when only people who can't use the Internet still use catalogs. Aechie McPhes Seea Cos e e Lrks R.I.P. 2005-2008 t ternet Eplorer Preferences. Performance data. Don't accelerate this webste Help WEB ACCELERATOR Google's downloadable Web Accelerator (a 0Ogle Google Web Ac 10serh Grerortes e. 36.3 seconds saved Stoo Google Web Accelerator Seve Preferences proxy server used to reduce web access times via caching technologies) had some dealbreaker bugs and privacy issues - for example, it prevented users from watching YouTube videos. Google axed it in 2008. preferences when finished Specily your type of Intemet connection tion OOSL Ocable Modem / TI Enable prefetching of pages so they come up faster B Enable Prefetching Highlight prefetched links with a double-underline (example link) C rternet g Pages Google R.I.P. 2005-2007 VIDEO PLAYER EX Google Video Player was a standalone desktop application for playing Google video files. But it turned out the world didn't need yet another video player - Google hasn't fared well at entering a market late unless it offers a clear improvement on existing products. aboutblank-Microsoft Internet Eplorer Fle Edt Vew Favortes Tools Hep Oa A QSearch rerortes retary 3. Back R.I.P. 2002-2006 Google ess e) about blank GOOGLE ANSWERS Aska question Set your price. Get your answer O Geegle Aec Answers Let ier Google's answer to Yahoo Answers employed paid researchers and asked users to bid for a response to their question. But users, it seems, preferred their information free, even if free often means questionable. T Yor seton conplere ted A Oto/ Dept-Etr your Outon Tet m enet Searh Geegle Aen f R.I.P. 2009-2010 GOOGLE WAVE 601 71010 718 ROR AM PAE Bome C ne D Se et Google Wave was supposed to reinvent email, bringing old-fashioned electronic mail together with new technologies like instant messaging and social media. It launched to huge hype, but users found it overly compli- cated and failed to ride the wave. R.I.P. 2008-2010 Micresolt Interoet Esplorer WIKI SEARCH CAMaa Sies ine Smal n All SearchWai notes lew Ferortes Took Hep -O a A earch evartes tory SearchWiki turned Google Search into a wiki - logged-in users could move results up and down or delete results they didn't like. Searchers can still star a result to mark it as a favorite, but the other wiki options went to the chopping block. about blark by ing 68 notes recorded for searchwki ca Google narsonaiseter A net archWa-W seaches h rchiWi t person Ine coAolhewstetndwteetic ecehos comp OS DI Scamme aboutblank- Microsolt Internet Explorer R.I.P. 2006-2009 d Vew Favorites Tools Heb +O a A Osearch GFavortes 3tory - o unks " GOOGLE AUDIO ADS lout blark Gosgle Google hoped Audio Ads, a radio-based advertising platform, would offer the powerful metrics of search-based advertis- ing to broadcasters. But measuring perfor- mance proved much more difficult, and in 2009 Google left Audio Ads behind. t An pecalOfferCa S yourtdonpegn Oferes ne0.200 eingcoecve wycoveyyuressage ww.ns ofantal en Wahch a Deme Esperimentwhuidng ampaignand geta m and eo en antwhey e and where did my O when ade play O Mewdeo aboutblark- Mcrosolt Internet Explorer Fle t Ve Farortes Tos Heb tad.+O 3 A Qrch Gfeates tory 3. Adessebot a R.I.P. 2005-2009 DODGEBALL dodgaball. Google bought Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service, in 2005. Its founder went on to leave Google and form Four- square, now the leader in the location-based space. Dodgeball is no more, but Google has launched a new mobile app, Latitude. O w Oww p vee 1 checked n ( ) h t y nd A' ma dodgeboll Floxl about blank-Microsoft Internet bplorer R.I.P. 2007-2009 Ed Ve Favortes Toos Heb +-O 2 A edh ravortes try . JAIKU about blark ethe Tour Cha glore Jaiku is to Twitter as Dodgeball is to Four- square? Google purchased the microblog- ging service (so named because posts resemble haiku) in 2007; it failed to take off, and Google has open-sourced the code and no longer actively develops it. ChiefTWIT Leo Laporte d Ro d AMV Pc Cl UCTWT FL 13 hae yurk OwmWT Ay tet a from ChiefTwIT Aahet R os neon indow E 1800uTc t TwNT F1 gng eCone aboutblank- Mcrosolt Internet bplorer Ple Ede Vew Fevortes Took Heb R.I.P. 2006-2009 Back O2 A Qserch avortes tory . about blak GOOGLE NOTEBOOK Notebook Lnks Google Notebook was a browser-based application that allowed users to cut, paste, save, and share text, links, and images from the web to a personal "notebook." This functionality has been replaced by Google Docs. Seach My Ntes Seach the We Sert Unfled nking Ntes 4Talent- BLOOMERS BO0S Cot t v Radsign Instal mutple versions oton your PC Tredosen er ten E Commert te n t pas.com- toeffen Rusitscha. Sadegtorder Jay Reund Comers with Drep Shadew Coe t Css Cane cs ORenys Reterence Lerary www.sa troly rernet R.I.P. 2006-2008 Mank-Microsoft Internet bplorer Vew Favortes Took He GOOGLE PAGE CREATOR O a A Qserdh rarortes tory . Google Page Creator was - you guessed it - a tool to help users create web pages, which were hosted on Google's servers. Google canned the product in 2008 to focus on Google Sites – not the first time it suffered from feature overlap. le Page Manager:ey ariarwa gongepages.com PNANI Done 5boutlak-Mosalt Internet bplorer Fe ta Ve Ferotes Took He R.I.P 2010-? GOOGLE BUZZ ebout ark gle buzz In another attempt to keep up with Twitter and Facebook, Google launched this social network as an opt-out service for Gmail users - many of whom reacted angrily. Can Buzz overcome privacy concerns and slow growth to avoid going the way of Wave? tyond status messages photos wdos and more tons abod e tvg yondteresting bin Gal y or pivatly M gton Secome PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/146101/top_10_google_flubs_flops_and_failures.html Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/lets-celebrate-googles-biggest-failures-48165 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products WordStream www.wordstream.com GOOGLE'S BIGGEST PRODUCT FLOPS & FAILURES Google Graveyard Despite being one of the most profitable companies in the world, Google Inc. has had its share of total failures. In addition to its flagship search engine, Google has launched dozens of products over the years – many of which are now dead, gone and largely unmourned. Let's take a walk through the Google graveyard. R.I.P. 2005-2005 GOOGLE X Microsolt Internet Eplorer Vew Favortes Tools Hep Hetory - Google X was a version of the Google home page modeled after the Mac OS user interface. The bottom of the page read, "Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you." It's hard to imagine Google crafting an ode to Apple today, and in fact Google X only survived for one day. -02 AOSerch Fevortes Jabout blark Google Coogle Search m feeling Lucky Eeedbec- Dacas-Ite-Aout Google oes arered Volets are ue 0SXrocks Homage to you aboutblank -Microsolt Internet Explorer * Ek Ve Fevortes Toos Helo R.I.P. 2002-2009 O a A Osech Greortes tory . GOOGLE CATALOG ogle E Google Catalogs, a search engine for print catalogs, languished in Beta from 2001 until 2009, when Google put it out of its misery - finally realizing the uselessness of a product that puts catalogs online, when only people who can't use the Internet still use catalogs. Aechie McPhes Seea Cos e e Lrks R.I.P. 2005-2008 t ternet Eplorer Preferences. Performance data. Don't accelerate this webste Help WEB ACCELERATOR Google's downloadable Web Accelerator (a 0Ogle Google Web Ac 10serh Grerortes e. 36.3 seconds saved Stoo Google Web Accelerator Seve Preferences proxy server used to reduce web access times via caching technologies) had some dealbreaker bugs and privacy issues - for example, it prevented users from watching YouTube videos. Google axed it in 2008. preferences when finished Specily your type of Intemet connection tion OOSL Ocable Modem / TI Enable prefetching of pages so they come up faster B Enable Prefetching Highlight prefetched links with a double-underline (example link) C rternet g Pages Google R.I.P. 2005-2007 VIDEO PLAYER EX Google Video Player was a standalone desktop application for playing Google video files. But it turned out the world didn't need yet another video player - Google hasn't fared well at entering a market late unless it offers a clear improvement on existing products. aboutblank-Microsoft Internet Eplorer Fle Edt Vew Favortes Tools Hep Oa A QSearch rerortes retary 3. Back R.I.P. 2002-2006 Google ess e) about blank GOOGLE ANSWERS Aska question Set your price. Get your answer O Geegle Aec Answers Let ier Google's answer to Yahoo Answers employed paid researchers and asked users to bid for a response to their question. But users, it seems, preferred their information free, even if free often means questionable. T Yor seton conplere ted A Oto/ Dept-Etr your Outon Tet m enet Searh Geegle Aen f R.I.P. 2009-2010 GOOGLE WAVE 601 71010 718 ROR AM PAE Bome C ne D Se et Google Wave was supposed to reinvent email, bringing old-fashioned electronic mail together with new technologies like instant messaging and social media. It launched to huge hype, but users found it overly compli- cated and failed to ride the wave. R.I.P. 2008-2010 Micresolt Interoet Esplorer WIKI SEARCH CAMaa Sies ine Smal n All SearchWai notes lew Ferortes Took Hep -O a A earch evartes tory SearchWiki turned Google Search into a wiki - logged-in users could move results up and down or delete results they didn't like. Searchers can still star a result to mark it as a favorite, but the other wiki options went to the chopping block. about blark by ing 68 notes recorded for searchwki ca Google narsonaiseter A net archWa-W seaches h rchiWi t person Ine coAolhewstetndwteetic ecehos comp OS DI Scamme aboutblank- Microsolt Internet Explorer R.I.P. 2006-2009 d Vew Favorites Tools Heb +O a A Osearch GFavortes 3tory - o unks " GOOGLE AUDIO ADS lout blark Gosgle Google hoped Audio Ads, a radio-based advertising platform, would offer the powerful metrics of search-based advertis- ing to broadcasters. But measuring perfor- mance proved much more difficult, and in 2009 Google left Audio Ads behind. t An pecalOfferCa S yourtdonpegn Oferes ne0.200 eingcoecve wycoveyyuressage ww.ns ofantal en Wahch a Deme Esperimentwhuidng ampaignand geta m and eo en antwhey e and where did my O when ade play O Mewdeo aboutblark- Mcrosolt Internet Explorer Fle t Ve Farortes Tos Heb tad.+O 3 A Qrch Gfeates tory 3. Adessebot a R.I.P. 2005-2009 DODGEBALL dodgaball. Google bought Dodgeball, a mobile social networking service, in 2005. Its founder went on to leave Google and form Four- square, now the leader in the location-based space. Dodgeball is no more, but Google has launched a new mobile app, Latitude. O w Oww p vee 1 checked n ( ) h t y nd A' ma dodgeboll Floxl about blank-Microsoft Internet bplorer R.I.P. 2007-2009 Ed Ve Favortes Toos Heb +-O 2 A edh ravortes try . JAIKU about blark ethe Tour Cha glore Jaiku is to Twitter as Dodgeball is to Four- square? Google purchased the microblog- ging service (so named because posts resemble haiku) in 2007; it failed to take off, and Google has open-sourced the code and no longer actively develops it. ChiefTWIT Leo Laporte d Ro d AMV Pc Cl UCTWT FL 13 hae yurk OwmWT Ay tet a from ChiefTwIT Aahet R os neon indow E 1800uTc t TwNT F1 gng eCone aboutblank- Mcrosolt Internet bplorer Ple Ede Vew Fevortes Took Heb R.I.P. 2006-2009 Back O2 A Qserch avortes tory . about blak GOOGLE NOTEBOOK Notebook Lnks Google Notebook was a browser-based application that allowed users to cut, paste, save, and share text, links, and images from the web to a personal "notebook." This functionality has been replaced by Google Docs. Seach My Ntes Seach the We Sert Unfled nking Ntes 4Talent- BLOOMERS BO0S Cot t v Radsign Instal mutple versions oton your PC Tredosen er ten E Commert te n t pas.com- toeffen Rusitscha. Sadegtorder Jay Reund Comers with Drep Shadew Coe t Css Cane cs ORenys Reterence Lerary www.sa troly rernet R.I.P. 2006-2008 Mank-Microsoft Internet bplorer Vew Favortes Took He GOOGLE PAGE CREATOR O a A Qserdh rarortes tory . Google Page Creator was - you guessed it - a tool to help users create web pages, which were hosted on Google's servers. Google canned the product in 2008 to focus on Google Sites – not the first time it suffered from feature overlap. le Page Manager:ey ariarwa gongepages.com PNANI Done 5boutlak-Mosalt Internet bplorer Fe ta Ve Ferotes Took He R.I.P 2010-? GOOGLE BUZZ ebout ark gle buzz In another attempt to keep up with Twitter and Facebook, Google launched this social network as an opt-out service for Gmail users - many of whom reacted angrily. Can Buzz overcome privacy concerns and slow growth to avoid going the way of Wave? tyond status messages photos wdos and more tons abod e tvg yondteresting bin Gal y or pivatly M gton Secome PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/146101/top_10_google_flubs_flops_and_failures.html Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/lets-celebrate-googles-biggest-failures-48165 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products WordStream www.wordstream.com

Google's Biggest Flops and Failures

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Google is one of the most profitable companies in the world, but it didn't get to the top without a few duds in its past.This infographic is a tour through the Google graveyard - from the failed Googl...

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