Thread: Google's Biggest Product Flops & Failures

i like google wave. wish they hadn't canned it.

google crome..was a big flop

i disagree, it's got itself a decent marketshare

Something interesting is that Google is losing money with youtube; Google pays more money for buying more servers for the massive quantity of uploaded videos than Google receives in revenue... but I'm sure that they aren't giving up on it anytime soon!

Youtube doesn't need bigger servers; it needs better filtering. Most material on Youtube has got to be duplicates! If one could flag video X as a duplicate of video Y, and vote on which one has the better quality, we would get rid of all duplicate videos, AND all the crappy rips some idiot made by filming a TV set with his or her mobile phone.

Also, most of the projects mentioned in that picture are, in fact, not failures; most of them were experiments, and have been incorporated in other projects. That's how software evolve, people!

(EDIT: That's how decent software evolve; take the good parts, scrap the bad parts, move on. Bad software keep parts, not based on how good they are, but based on how convenient it is to just leave it in place. Yes I'm looking at you, Microsoft; scrap that crappy NT-esque kernel already!)