don’t be too surprised if you don’t get
many search results googling these less
tech and more geek welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 google
fails you’re all starting your teams
this week and some great advice is to
not be afraid to fail for this list
we’re taking a look at Google’s entire
roster of products and services and are
choosing the ones that we feel were the
company’s biggest embarrassments due to
their inability to attract public
attention profit or to synergize with
other Google properties
don’t be mad if we try to smoosh a lot
in wave can do a lot of things number 10
Google Answers launched in 2002 this
knowledge market program allowed users
to post questions that were then
answered in detail by other users if an
answer was deemed satisfactory by the
asker the researcher of the answer would
collect a bounty ranging from $2 to $200
with Google keeping 25% of the reward
despite its heavy influence on
competitors having spawned rival online
reference desks like Yahoo Answers
mahalo answers and Korra Google Answers
was ultimately shut down in December
2006 remaining as a read-only archive
our theory as to why it failed people
discovered they can simply Google
answers themselves have you googled it I
was on my way to that or they discovered
Wikipedia number 9 Google lively back in
early 2000 video game developer Maxis
created this neat life simulation title
called The Sims which allows players to
dictate the daily activities of virtual
people and user created environments hmm
rising in popularity at an unexpected
rate Google decided to release their own
web-based version of the idea eight
years later
thus Google lively was born partially
intended to provide a new take on
accessing webpages and information
lively was ultimately viewed as a
three-dimensional chatroom thanks to its
emphasis on creating virtual avatars and
habitats still even though it was easy
to use and derived formulas from other
successful virtual world programs lively
was discontinued a mere six months after
its release number 8 I Google the web is
full of information with
I google you can choose to see only the
information that matters to you launched
as Google personalized homepage in 2005
this service did exactly that it allowed
users to create their own custom Google
homepage developed side by side with
iGoogle gadgets which allowed users to
design and remodel their own page
widgets iGoogle was essentially MySpace
in its heyday fused with Google
properties services and features you
probably find that you already have some
gadgets despite that just by using that
personal information that you already
submitted to Google generating millions
of active users nearly 20% of visitors
to Google used their own customized page
by 2008 however the service began to
stagnate after Google transferred much
of the services resources particularly
its social applications to Google+
eventually leading to eye Google’s
complete shutdown in November 2013
number 7 the dodgeball acquisition
founded in 2003 by two NYU students the
social networking app that was dodge
ball had users texting their locations
to the service which in turn pinpointed
the whereabouts of friends and
acquaintances in the area which is only
mildly creepy however Google was
nonetheless prompted to acquire the
service in 2005 with founders Dennis
Crowley and Alex Rayner brought on board
however two years later Crowley and
Rayner
parted ways with their brainchild citing
the lack of support and resources from
Google to be the driving factor low and
behold the service was then shut down in
2009 and was conveniently succeeded by
Google Latitude which was likewise shut
down four years later my friend Alice is
one of my surfer buddies we keep in
touch through latitude let’s see what
the swells are like number six Google
Videos launched a month before YouTube
Google Videos was the original video
search engine and sharing site meant to
be the web’s next big thing despite
their acquisition of YouTube Google for
reasons that remain unclear continue to
operate Google videos as a sister site
and this allows people to see Google not
just as a search engine company but as a
media company in the traditional sense
in the years that followed it received a
bevy of criticism for its lack of
organization
pricing schemes driving away it’s
already low number of active users this
led to a slow and inevitable decrease in
support for the site on Google’s end
ultimately they discontinued uploads in
2009 before closing down its website in
2012 and moving the remaining videos to
YouTube
number 5 Google Wave have you ever tried
to get something done with a group of
people and then frustrated by sending
messages back and forth
released in 2009 this web-based platform
was meant to revolutionize and simplify
our interactions on the web by merging
communication programs such as email
photos online documents and social
networking under one umbrella this model
allows you to do many types of
communication and collaboration in one
tool in other words Google’s epic failed
attempt to monopolize the web with one
wave what they got instead was a tsunami
of unhappy users that hated on the
site’s design and failure to provide the
ease-of-use that google products are
normally known for a wave is pretty
useless if you’re by yourself so I’m
going to invite Casey despite a
rebranding effort similar to that of
Google Buzz in the following game you
can see buzz from your friends as you do
on your computer both programs were
eventually reduced to read-only
databases before their total deletion
months later although the former is now
run by the Apache Software Foundation
number 4 Orkut now you can share almost
any page with a single click using the
share on Orkut bookmarklet named after
its developer this social networking
site was founded on the same premise as
every other one in existence to stay in
touch with family and friends at one
point one of the most visited web sites
in America Orkut appeared to be well on
its way to replacing MySpace which in
the mid-2000s was a very big statement
however as controversy began to stir
around the site for its concerns with
privacy fake profiles and hate group
pages the site dwindled in popularity
seeing a massive drop in active u.s.
users if you’ve never heard of Orkut
you’re probably not alone while the site
did garner some success The Economic
Times reports a majority of the users
were from Brazil and India this
lead the site to lose the battle with
well every other social media platform
and eventually Orkut was totally shut
down in 2014
number three Google+ you know like in
your head you’ve assign everyone these
roles and like you think you know like
these are the people that matter these
don’t and then like once you like step
back and get away from that you realize
oh these are the people that were
actually there for me as the company’s
fourth attempt into social networking
Google+ was founded with a slightly
different take on keeping in touch by
allowing users to group friends photos
and communities into circles that said
it was basically Google Wave with a new
name new interface and removed features
in place of less than innovative new
ones
although plus currently has over 400
million accounts it has next to nothing
new to offer save for an emphasis on
organization also with user frustrations
arising from Google’s cross-platform
integration it’s safe to say that their
new site won’t be dethroning Jack Dorsey
or Mark Zuckerberg anytime soon you’re
gonna blame me because you were the
business head of the company and you
made a bad business deal with your own
company’s number two Google glass when I
put them all on the first time I didn’t
notice some way more when I took them
off my glass my regular glasses back on
Atlanta they definitely felt lighter the
device that was supposed to be the
biggest future II gadgets since
touchscreen tablets instead became one
of Google’s major public and market
disasters but today when tech blogs and
websites reported the Google Explorer
testing program was ending some saw the
glasses half-empty the glass was done
designed to be an ultra compact computer
Google glass was meant to cater to the
basic web browsing photo taking and GPS
needs of the public
right before everyone’s eyes literally
essentially a smartphone in the form of
glasses – the phone however despite the
hype Google glass ultimately failed to
sell because of its extravagant price
tag less than favorable reviews and lack
of exclusive features leading to a cease
in production and a return to the
drawing board the next time we see
Google glass will be very different than
it is today
before we Google search Google’s biggest
fail let’s take a look at a few
honorable or in
this case dishonorable mentions your
products are online in a format that
shows shoppers you’ve got exactly what
they’re looking for
number one the Demark broadcasting
acquisition real-time reporting means
you can identify when and where your ad
aired view impression delivery and even
listen to a live playback of the ad
never even heard of this company you’re
not alone anticipated by Google to grow
from its 102 million dollar purchase
price Demark was supposed to be the
brand that would finally get Google
stagnating radio advertising initiative
to spread like wildfire what helps me
get up in the morning is a radio
however wary of Google’s dominance and
online advertising marketers and radio
companies were reluctant to work with
the company so the unit floundered
despite being one of the more promising
startups Google’s woeful integration
made Demark fizzle
even though remnants of it were
eventually integrated with Google’s
Adsense program log in to your account
today create your first ad and see what
Adsense can do for you do you agree with
our list which product fail do you think
is Google’s biggest I’m sure will be
with me until the day I die for more
innovative and not failing top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
it’ll be relatively easy for Google to
make that up in advertising revenue in a
very short period
you
many search results googling these less
tech and more geek welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 google
fails you’re all starting your teams
this week and some great advice is to
not be afraid to fail for this list
we’re taking a look at Google’s entire
roster of products and services and are
choosing the ones that we feel were the
company’s biggest embarrassments due to
their inability to attract public
attention profit or to synergize with
other Google properties
don’t be mad if we try to smoosh a lot
in wave can do a lot of things number 10
Google Answers launched in 2002 this
knowledge market program allowed users
to post questions that were then
answered in detail by other users if an
answer was deemed satisfactory by the
asker the researcher of the answer would
collect a bounty ranging from $2 to $200
with Google keeping 25% of the reward
despite its heavy influence on
competitors having spawned rival online
reference desks like Yahoo Answers
mahalo answers and Korra Google Answers
was ultimately shut down in December
2006 remaining as a read-only archive
our theory as to why it failed people
discovered they can simply Google
answers themselves have you googled it I
was on my way to that or they discovered
Wikipedia number 9 Google lively back in
early 2000 video game developer Maxis
created this neat life simulation title
called The Sims which allows players to
dictate the daily activities of virtual
people and user created environments hmm
rising in popularity at an unexpected
rate Google decided to release their own
web-based version of the idea eight
years later
thus Google lively was born partially
intended to provide a new take on
accessing webpages and information
lively was ultimately viewed as a
three-dimensional chatroom thanks to its
emphasis on creating virtual avatars and
habitats still even though it was easy
to use and derived formulas from other
successful virtual world programs lively
was discontinued a mere six months after
its release number 8 I Google the web is
full of information with
I google you can choose to see only the
information that matters to you launched
as Google personalized homepage in 2005
this service did exactly that it allowed
users to create their own custom Google
homepage developed side by side with
iGoogle gadgets which allowed users to
design and remodel their own page
widgets iGoogle was essentially MySpace
in its heyday fused with Google
properties services and features you
probably find that you already have some
gadgets despite that just by using that
personal information that you already
submitted to Google generating millions
of active users nearly 20% of visitors
to Google used their own customized page
by 2008 however the service began to
stagnate after Google transferred much
of the services resources particularly
its social applications to Google+
eventually leading to eye Google’s
complete shutdown in November 2013
number 7 the dodgeball acquisition
founded in 2003 by two NYU students the
social networking app that was dodge
ball had users texting their locations
to the service which in turn pinpointed
the whereabouts of friends and
acquaintances in the area which is only
mildly creepy however Google was
nonetheless prompted to acquire the
service in 2005 with founders Dennis
Crowley and Alex Rayner brought on board
however two years later Crowley and
Rayner
parted ways with their brainchild citing
the lack of support and resources from
Google to be the driving factor low and
behold the service was then shut down in
2009 and was conveniently succeeded by
Google Latitude which was likewise shut
down four years later my friend Alice is
one of my surfer buddies we keep in
touch through latitude let’s see what
the swells are like number six Google
Videos launched a month before YouTube
Google Videos was the original video
search engine and sharing site meant to
be the web’s next big thing despite
their acquisition of YouTube Google for
reasons that remain unclear continue to
operate Google videos as a sister site
and this allows people to see Google not
just as a search engine company but as a
media company in the traditional sense
in the years that followed it received a
bevy of criticism for its lack of
organization
pricing schemes driving away it’s
already low number of active users this
led to a slow and inevitable decrease in
support for the site on Google’s end
ultimately they discontinued uploads in
2009 before closing down its website in
2012 and moving the remaining videos to
YouTube
number 5 Google Wave have you ever tried
to get something done with a group of
people and then frustrated by sending
messages back and forth
released in 2009 this web-based platform
was meant to revolutionize and simplify
our interactions on the web by merging
communication programs such as email
photos online documents and social
networking under one umbrella this model
allows you to do many types of
communication and collaboration in one
tool in other words Google’s epic failed
attempt to monopolize the web with one
wave what they got instead was a tsunami
of unhappy users that hated on the
site’s design and failure to provide the
ease-of-use that google products are
normally known for a wave is pretty
useless if you’re by yourself so I’m
going to invite Casey despite a
rebranding effort similar to that of
Google Buzz in the following game you
can see buzz from your friends as you do
on your computer both programs were
eventually reduced to read-only
databases before their total deletion
months later although the former is now
run by the Apache Software Foundation
number 4 Orkut now you can share almost
any page with a single click using the
share on Orkut bookmarklet named after
its developer this social networking
site was founded on the same premise as
every other one in existence to stay in
touch with family and friends at one
point one of the most visited web sites
in America Orkut appeared to be well on
its way to replacing MySpace which in
the mid-2000s was a very big statement
however as controversy began to stir
around the site for its concerns with
privacy fake profiles and hate group
pages the site dwindled in popularity
seeing a massive drop in active u.s.
users if you’ve never heard of Orkut
you’re probably not alone while the site
did garner some success The Economic
Times reports a majority of the users
were from Brazil and India this
lead the site to lose the battle with
well every other social media platform
and eventually Orkut was totally shut
down in 2014
number three Google+ you know like in
your head you’ve assign everyone these
roles and like you think you know like
these are the people that matter these
don’t and then like once you like step
back and get away from that you realize
oh these are the people that were
actually there for me as the company’s
fourth attempt into social networking
Google+ was founded with a slightly
different take on keeping in touch by
allowing users to group friends photos
and communities into circles that said
it was basically Google Wave with a new
name new interface and removed features
in place of less than innovative new
ones
although plus currently has over 400
million accounts it has next to nothing
new to offer save for an emphasis on
organization also with user frustrations
arising from Google’s cross-platform
integration it’s safe to say that their
new site won’t be dethroning Jack Dorsey
or Mark Zuckerberg anytime soon you’re
gonna blame me because you were the
business head of the company and you
made a bad business deal with your own
company’s number two Google glass when I
put them all on the first time I didn’t
notice some way more when I took them
off my glass my regular glasses back on
Atlanta they definitely felt lighter the
device that was supposed to be the
biggest future II gadgets since
touchscreen tablets instead became one
of Google’s major public and market
disasters but today when tech blogs and
websites reported the Google Explorer
testing program was ending some saw the
glasses half-empty the glass was done
designed to be an ultra compact computer
Google glass was meant to cater to the
basic web browsing photo taking and GPS
needs of the public
right before everyone’s eyes literally
essentially a smartphone in the form of
glasses – the phone however despite the
hype Google glass ultimately failed to
sell because of its extravagant price
tag less than favorable reviews and lack
of exclusive features leading to a cease
in production and a return to the
drawing board the next time we see
Google glass will be very different than
it is today
before we Google search Google’s biggest
fail let’s take a look at a few
honorable or in
this case dishonorable mentions your
products are online in a format that
shows shoppers you’ve got exactly what
they’re looking for
number one the Demark broadcasting
acquisition real-time reporting means
you can identify when and where your ad
aired view impression delivery and even
listen to a live playback of the ad
never even heard of this company you’re
not alone anticipated by Google to grow
from its 102 million dollar purchase
price Demark was supposed to be the
brand that would finally get Google
stagnating radio advertising initiative
to spread like wildfire what helps me
get up in the morning is a radio
however wary of Google’s dominance and
online advertising marketers and radio
companies were reluctant to work with
the company so the unit floundered
despite being one of the more promising
startups Google’s woeful integration
made Demark fizzle
even though remnants of it were
eventually integrated with Google’s
Adsense program log in to your account
today create your first ad and see what
Adsense can do for you do you agree with
our list which product fail do you think
is Google’s biggest I’m sure will be
with me until the day I die for more
innovative and not failing top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
it’ll be relatively easy for Google to
make that up in advertising revenue in a
very short period
you
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