Google: It’s great that they keep innovating, and of course not every idea will work out. But Google’s record of killing off products makes me nervous about my reliance on them. Here are some defunct products I remember (and here are some I never tried. Even more. Still more.):
- Desktop Google search (still working if you can find a copy, thank heaven, but no longer supported)
- Google Buzz
- Google Wave
- Pages and files in Google Groups
- And my favorite defunct Google product: Google boxer shorts. Apparently they were printed with, “I’m feeling lucky”.
ha!
My bro-in-law works for Goog and we all got T-shirts one year with “I’m feeling lucky” on them. Needless to say, none of the teenage girls were allowed to wear them.