Not suprisingly, Google has more discontinued applications than most companies have in their entire portfolios of products and services.<\/p>\n
Even more impressive is the fact that most of them were scrapped because of integration with other Google products, not because they were bad ideas.<\/p>\n
My own personal top ten favorite applications discountinued by Google are as follows:<\/p>\n
10. Google Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n Question and answer service, allowing users to pay researchers to answer questions. Google announced the 9. Google Catalogs<\/strong><\/p>\n Search engine for over 6,600 print catalogs, that although discontinued back in January of this year, certainly gave participating sites a humoungous competitive advantage while it was around. Sounds to me like companies would have paid big bucks to keep their entire catalog of products on Google and possibly even more money if integrated with Google Checkout.<\/p>\n
\nclosing of this service back in November of 2006. All past discussions have been publicly archived.
\nCertainly not a bad idea. Yahoo and LinkedIn, however, both still have free questions and answsers.<\/p>\n