10 Google Services That Failed

Google may be regarded as the king of search engine. AdSense and AdWords advertising system are also very successful in the world of online advertising.

Other Google products that enjoy the 'top success', are Gmail, Google Talk and Google Maps. There is also some successful acquisitions by Google, this includes video sharing site YouTube, Blogger, and  mobile operating system Android.

Yet behind those all, it is not a few of Google products that failed. Then, the products have been turned off or transferred to be part of other products.

Here are 10 of them:

    1. Google Wave:

Often discessed as the technology that would replace e-mail, the development of Google's Wave finally were stopped. The wave's death was allegedly caused by its complicated use.

    2. Google Notebook:

This service allows users to record something while reaching web pages. However, the users that are very few make this service very doubtful to continue.

    3. Google Answers:

Begun as a paid service, Google Answers were over time presented in the free version. Ultimately, these services failed to compete with Yahoo Answers.

    4. Google Video:

Before YouTube, Google had its own service called Google Video. After buying YouTube, Google finally chose to maintain YouTube and closed his own Google Video.

    5. Google Print Ads:

With kind intention on print medias, Google once opened adsense-like service for print newspapers. Obviously, this service then failed.

    6. Google Mashup Editor:

This is a service for developers to test applications. This has been eventually replaced by another service from Google called App Engine.

    7. Search Mash:

This site was once for trying its new feature or technology of search. Now this site has been dead.

    8. Jaiku:

Actually, This is a Google's version of twitter and not really dead. Although still accessible, Jaiku is not officially supported by Google and only run by volunteers.

    9. Dodgeball:

This location-based services should be able to compete with the Foursquare or Gowalla. But now it is switched off and replaced with Google's Latitude.

    10. Lively:

This is one of Google's experiment in social networking sites. The candidate of Facebook killer has been ultimately dead.