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- When a company tried as many crazy new ideas as Google, there are bound to be a few epic fails along the way.
- From Google Offers to Google Answers, we’ve compiled the 14 biggest product flops in Google history.
No company has a perfect track record when it comes to product launches. But when a company takes as many swings at new ideas as Google, there are bound to be some epic fails along the way.
It seems that for every product as successful as Google Docs, there’s a flop as bad as Google Buzz.
Some of these flops lingered for years. Some for months. One lasted for a single day.
Here are the 14 biggest product flops in Google history:
14. Google Offers
Lifespan: 2011 – 2014
What it did: Google Offers launched during the daily-deals heyday of Groupon and Living Social. As the trend died down, so too did Google Offers.
13. Google Web Accelerator
Lifespan: 2005 – 2008
What it did: Google Web Accelerator was meant to help users browse faster by speeding up page load times. The product, however, was riddled with bugs, including YouTube videos not being able to load. The company stopped supporting Accelerator in 2008.
12. Google Video
Lifespan: 2005 – 2009
What it did: With YouTube building in momentum around 2005, Google decided to launch its own free video hosting platform — Google Video. About a year later, as Google Video failed to gain traction, the search giant simply bought YouTube for $ 1.65 billion. As of May 2018, YouTube had over 1.8 billion active users per month.
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