Compared to industry. Feels like a disproportionate amount of Google products fail. Might be baseless though, haven't thought much about it. Just noticing lots of very interesting things I'd like to use that seem to disappear into nowhere
Google just launches more products and has a higher bar for what it decides to keep long term. If something doesn't get insanely high traction, it deprecates the product offering to focus on the next shiny thing. Most other companies are more careful with what they release.
Why was the + sign on Google search removed? + sign Never Forget
Outside of search/ads, every business has failed.
Gmail, android both succeeded
Android is a *huge* success. YouTube is a *huge* success. GCP hasn't failed yet - it's growing well and bringing in new revenue (doesn't need to be #1 to be a successful investment for the company). And Waymo is leading it's industry. And step back from business as a metric - because monetization can always come later. Google has a ridiculous number of billion user products.
Which products failed
Imo one of the reasons Google's products fail is because they kill of products too quickly. I'd have loved to buy a stadia, but I have no reason to believe it will be around next year. This naturally leads to low user adoption for new products and a high chance of product death.
Creating many products for the sake of it and seeing what sticks has been typical of Google. The executive team lacks enough vision and usually over optimistic. What baffles me is they repeatedly try to enter markets dominated by extreme network effects, in the hope their "supposedly" superior products will somehow convince everyone to adopt them.
It's so cringe. They did Groupon copy. Then Facebook copy. Trying and failing to do slack copy. Do they have brain of their own?
Facebook is actually trying to copy wechat now. All big companies are short on imagination and true risks. They will only acquire companies that show undisputed success and a good trajectory, like Snapchat
Perf driven development: Launch product, then either move on to a new product, or embark on a large rewrite of the whole thing. Good for perf, bad for product.
my take is that Google is really the expert in smearing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks
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