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

  • Google Toolbar for Firefox: 2005 – 2009

Killed almost 11 years ago, Google Toolbar for Firefox It was about 4 years old.

  • Google Radio Automation: 2007 – 2009

Killed about 11 years ago, Google Radio Automation was a hardware and software service used by radio operators to automate song playing among other radio station functions. It was over 2 years old.

  • On2 Flix Cloud: 2008 – 2009

Killed about 11 years ago, Flix Cloud was a high-capacity online video encoding service. It was 9 months old.

  • Google Mashup Editor: 2007 – 2009

Killed about 11 years ago, Google Mashup Editor was an online web mashup creation service with publishing, syntax highlighting, and debugging. It was about 2 years old.

  • Google Shared Stuff: 2007 – 2009

Killed over 11 years ago, Google Shared Stuff was a web page sharing system that allowed users to bookmark pages and share it. It was over 1 year old.


  • Grand Central: 2005 – 2009

Killed over 11 years ago, Grand Central was a Voice over IP service that was acquired by Google, and turned into Google Voice. It was about 4 years old.

  • Dodgeball: 2003 – 2009

Killed over 11 years ago, Dodgeball was a location-based social network where users texted their location to the service, and it notified them of friends and points of interest nearby. It was over 5 years old.

  • Google Audio Ads: 2008 – 2009

Killed over 11 years ago, Google Audio Ads service allowed advertisers to run campaigns on AM/FM radio stations in US using the AdWords interface. It was 7 months old.

  • Google Lively: 2008 – 2008

Killed over 11 years ago, Google Lively was a web-based virtual environment that provided a new way to access information. It was 6 months old.

  • SearchMash: 2006 – 2008

Killed over 11 years ago, SearchMash was an experimental, non-branded search engine that Google used to be able to play around with new search technologies, concepts and interfaces. It was about 2 years old.

 



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