Biggest Google Failures so far – Google Graveyard
There is not a soul in the modern world that hasn’t heard about Google. We as web masters and SEO’s heavily depend upon the all might Google for our piece of income and out future, so what would happen if Google itself was to become another Google failure and join the already full Google Graveyard?
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Who knew the mighty Google had so many failures, among them precursors to Twitter and Foursquare. It makes you wonder what at Google inhibited Dennis Crowley from making Dodgeball into what FourSquare has become…or similarly why Jaiku failed in Google’s hands, despite also launching in winter of 2006, while Twitter flourished. If nothing else it’s evidence of the fact that it’s not just the idea, but the execution that makes a business.
“it’s not just the idea, but the execution that makes a business”
Kyle, I couldn’t agree more with what you said there
Hey, without failures, you would never learn anything. I think its awesome that they tried all of that stuff. If it fails, drop it, recoup the resources and try again, and that’s how it works. Nothin’to it.
Yeah, there is truth to it Mark, but when talking about one of the largest and richest companies in the world can we actually believe that they know what they are doing if they get an idea and try it, what happened to all their so called testing and user experience evaluation… Basically, they are in the dark, but they have resources and they can joke around and test and fail and get on, not everyone is in the position to make so many mistakes and move on like nothing happened. You and me, if we made that many mistakes we would be broke by now
Let’s see how well will Google +1 do, or perhaps they can start digging for the next victim.
My thoughts exactly, I really don’t see Google +1 as something that will be sticking around too much or even becoming popular.. time will tell…
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They were real failures as some of them are completely unknown for me
especially the first points. But I guess Google is on the right way – every failure is a chance to make something better.
And I see more successful projects than failures with Google.
Zarko,
A pretty cool infographic. I had forgotten about 3/4 of these Google failures. It is nice to see that everything they touch doesn’t turn to gold.
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Great infographics Zarko leaves with one thing in mind and that is if google can fails why can’t us in business we should not see it as failure just another way not to do it.
Infographic is really interesting and it proves once again that Google is very powerful and rich and can afford failures (it’s not a secret that any failure means much money lost).
I wish few failure in future but these failures make this company the most powerful in the world.
Hi Zarko! I enjoyed reading this stuff. I never thought Google have these imperfections because I consider their products and features, especially Chrome and Google Docs wonderful. But anyway, it’s good to recall failures if your current state is successful. For me, failures just serve as inspiration to grow and seek for more innovations.
Wow! I never really knew that Google had so many failures, and to think they are actually a very successful company. Surely after having spent so much on buying and developing websites and applications that they would have learned what’s good and what’s not already. I guess it’s a matter of trying out what might work for them and dropping it if it doesn’t.
@Charlene and Felicia,
yeah, failures can sometimes be a great inspiration, so I’m sure Google team sees them that way, I know they are analytics mind and soul, so they probably take all the data gathered and use it in the best possible way, and also, testing out something is sometimes the only way to see if ti works, no matter the idea…
Hi Zarko,
I agree with you Google fails lots of time but they keep continue with new Ideas,
That’s the region google is most successful search engine
yeah, you are right, they come up or borrow plenty of ideas, some work, some don’t, that is just how things go.
Hi Zarko,
i never knew Google had so many failures.But i think the essence is all this is that one reaches the top only after failures.And there is no fun in reaching your destination on soft roads.
Hey Zarko,
An interesting post for all to ponder on the shortages and potential of Google. Google is the best search engine so sometimes it gets a bit surprising to know about the kind of failures it comes up with from time to time but it is humans working on the data. Google has always improved itself and each time it failed it has come up with something more bigger more intense. Hope this time too Google tries to come up with some important and helpful updates.
I would agree that Google probably did the right thing by canning #2 (catalog search, which I personally never even heard of) but not for the reason listed. I don’t think it’s true that “only people who can’t use the Internet still use paper catalogs.” If this were the case, why would merchants like TigerDirect and BH Photo still publish catalogs? There is a certain indefinable appeal to paper catalogs that the Internet may never duplicate.
Lol, i remember when Google Wave was launched i applied for its invitation. The moment my application was accepted and when i used it, i was thoroughly disappointed… GOOGLE WAVE must go down as the biggest failure of Google in recent times…
Still m sure Google hasn’t lost its Midas touch..
I hope Google Instant search get added to that list soon
Hi Zarko,
Google failed and then tried again while bringing new things from their previous failure. This trial and error method works perfectly. They have developed significantly in the past few years.
Because of Google is trying new products on daily basis. I’m sure they would have learned from these failures.
I think failures are always there. And, Google is not an exemption of its wrath. But I guess it’s one way of letting Google know its weaknesses. After all, it will contribute to the advancement of its future products.
Zarko,
I didn’t know Google failed this many times, it’s good to see though. No offense Google but I fail all the time, it’s nice to know the big guys do too! Thanks for sharing
Hey Zarko,
I didn’t know they tried so many services, wow! We must give credit to the guys, they have ideas, take action, fail, but also succeed big time….It’s just that this company is growing into a huge gorilla!! Tomek
Holy Cow! That’s an long list of failures. I guess that goes to show that it does not really matter how many times one fails. All it matters is that you have one success. I think experimenting with different things and finding out what works is part of the process.
Google always learn something new from failures and devote good and new featured things to its users.
I really didn’t like the feature of google graveyard.So I do like to agree with the author that google graveyard is the largest failure.