Comments on: How many failures does Google have?

By: Simple Things

Simple Things — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:30:38 +0000

whatever you say, google is google… In condition that you suggest that some of they service has fault, but not in my mind.

1. Orkut ?
At least there are in top 5 position, except yahoo google is number one…

2. Google Answer ?
yeah, but technicaly its all because google love open source and want to build much free service (IMHO)

3. Google Video ?
they have still traffic, it means money right ? and i thing its all becase there “video tab” in google

nice to see you and your blogs here Mate…

regards.

By: San Diego Chris

San Diego Chris — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:03:46 +0000

Google has faults, just like any business. They experience growing pains, they have bugs and flaws, etc. However, their shear massive volume of searches, traffic, and revenue completely negates the short comings they have. Google is a power-house that is already #1 online – companies like Microsoft needing to buy Yahoo!, etc. just to compete – that is an amazing statistic! Congrats to all who got in on the Google IPO! And sold at the highs of course!

By: Raul Riera

Raul Riera — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:50:34 +0000

You forgot Google Talk, the IM app is terrible, people just use the Jabber protocol and the google ID to create their own experience elsewhere.

By: Nils Geylen

Nils Geylen — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:50:02 +0000

Totally agree on Google video. Orkut, like you say, can hardly be called a failure by numbers, but true: I’ve only heard the name once or twice and that’s it.

I don’t think either FeedBurner or Android have delivered much (although the former is there and just works, and the latter may still surprise us – though: when?).

Jaiku is also just there (and perhaps it ‘works’ too) but I never see it beating the Twitter/Friendfeed tandem. I for one have hardly used it, ever.

And Google Reader is annoying me like hell recently: stupid updates and essential missing features.

Good idea for a post this. Check out today’s news about Google possibly being locked out of an impending Yahoo/MSFT/Facebook deal. Could hurt them, maybe not…