Google Fails More Times Than It Succeeds, 200 Google Products that failed

  • Google One Pass: 2011 – 2012

Killed over 8 years ago, Google One Pass was an online store developed by Google for media publishers looking to sell subscriptions to their content. It was about 1 year old.

  • Google Related: 2011 – 2012

Killed over 8 years ago, Google Related was introduced to be an experimental navigation assistant launched to help people find useful and interesting information while surfing the web. It was 8 months old.

  • Urchin: 2005 – 2012

Killed over 8 years ago, Urchin was a web statistics analysis program developed by Urchin Software Corporation. It analyzed web server log file content and displayed the traffic information on that website based upon the log data. It was almost 7 years old.

  • Slide: 2005 – 2012

Killed over 8 years ago, Slide was a photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace and Facebook. Later Slide began to make applications and became the largest developer of third-party applications for Facebook. It was almost 7 years old.

  • Google Friend Connect: 2008 – 2012

Killed over 8 years ago, Google Friend Connect was a free social networking site from 2008 to 2012. It was almost 4 years old.

  • Jaiku: 2006 – 2012

Killed over 8 years ago, Jaiku was a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter. It was almost 6 years old.


  • Google Code Search: 2006 – 2012

Killed over 8 years ago, Google Code Search was a free beta product which allowed users to search for open-source code on the Internet. It was over 5 years old.

  • Google Health: 2008 – 2012

Killed over 8 years ago, Google Health was a personal health information centralization service that provided users a merged health record from multiple sources. It was over 3 years old.

  • Noop Programming Language: 2009 – 2011

Killed over 8 years ago, Noop was a project by Google engineers Alex Eagle and Christian Gruber aiming to develop a new programming language that attempted to blend the best features of ‘old’ and ‘new’ languages and best-practices. It was almost 3 years old.

  • Apture: 2007 – 2011

Killed over 8 years ago, Apture was a service that allowed publishers and bloggers to link and incorporate multimedia into a dynamic layer above their pages. It was over 4 years old.

 




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