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

  • Google Page Creator: 2006 – 2008

Killed almost 12 years ago, Google Page Creator was a website creation and hosting service that allowed users to build basic websites with no HTML knowledge. It was about 2 years old.

  • Send to Phone: 2006 – 2008

Killed almost 12 years ago, Google Send to Phone was an add-on to send links and other information from Firefox to their phone by text message. It was almost 2 years old.

  • Google Browser Sync: 2006 – 2008

Killed about 12 years ago, Google Browser Sync was a Firefox extension that synced information like passwords and browsing history. It was about 2 years old.

  • Hello: 2002 – 2008

Killed over 12 years ago, Hello was a service by Picasa that let users share pictures “like you’re sitting side-by-side.” It was almost 6 years old.


  • Google Web Accelerator: 2005 – 2008

Killed over 12 years ago, Google Web Accelerator was a client-side software that increased the load speed of web pages. It was over 2 years old.

  • Zeitgeist: 2001 – 2007

Killed over 12 years ago, Google Zeitgeist was a weekly, monthly, and yearly snapshot in time of what people were searching for on Google all over the world. It was almost 7 years old.

  • Google Click-to-Call: 2004 – 2007

Killed over 12 years ago, Google Click-to-Call allowed a user to speak directly over the phone to businesses found in search results. It was almost 4 years old.

  • Google Video Player: 2006 – 2007

Killed about 13 years ago, The Google Video Player plays back files in Google’s own Google Video File (.gvi) media format and supported playlists in ‘Google Video Pointer’ (.gvp) format. It was 12 months old.

  • Google Video Marketplace: 2006 – 2007

Killed about 13 years ago, Google Video Marketplace was a service that included a store where videos could be bought and rented. It was over 1 year old.

  • Google Answers: 2002 – 2006

Killed over 13 years ago, Google Answers was an online knowledge market. It was over 4 years old.

 




Comments are closed.