A Look At Google's Graveyard

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━CHAPTERS━
00:00 Google's Failed Products
01:23 Aura Ad :)
02:45 Google Answers (2002-2006)
04:27 Google+ (2011-2019)
05:34 Google Video (2005-2012)
06:54 Google Glass (2011-2019 *for consumers)
09:28 Google Stadia (2019-2023)
13:35 Google Lively (2008-2008)
15:08 Google Conclusion

[ethansloan]

Say what you will about Google+, but it was way ahead of the curve when it came to naming conventions. They paved the way for Disney+, Discovery+, Paramount+, Apple TV+, ESPN+, BET+, AMC+ and surely more in the future. To think we ever lived in a time when a service ever just had a name without indicating that it provided more than just what the name implied. Thanks, Google.

[secretmantisman]

In 2012 or so one of my friends dads got into the beta for google glass. It was pretty cool at the time for us 12-13 year olds, but very quickly we figured out that the voice recognition wasn't advanced enough to tell the person wearing the headset apart from someone who was standing next to them. So whenever one of my friends was wearing it any one of us could shout "OK GLASS LOOK UP NAKED MARIO!" and it would just display what google images found for naked Mario. I had a lot of fun memories with it but it was definitely a little too big of an idea for the time.

[darthestvader]

Stadia was so poorly marketed that almost all of my friends and I thought it was a cloud gaming CONSOLE not a subscription service. Truly a lesson in poor marketing and how it can easily kill a good idea.

[chiefmcclane]

I had a friend who, upon graduating high school in 2010, worked as an early developer for Google Glass. His project was so cool. He described it as an aid for people with hearing disability that would detect loud noises (fire alarms, glass breaking, dog barking, etc) and send a notification to the glasses. They also worked on a live transcription feature so that a person with a hearing disability could see what someone was saying more clearly and easily.

[ItsRainingHippos]

Outlook really has a niche with organizations, universities, and workplace use.

[Nonameyu]

The concept of Google answers is insane. At that time, doing online payments was a massive undertaking. I remember ordering things online and then adding the order the number to the description on the bank transfer to be able to pay for the item, and then it took 2 days for the payment to be processed.

[hookbat]

A couple years ago, I bought a Stadia controller and Chromecast ultra for 5 dollars from a Google store promotion. I played with it for about a month, and forgot about it because my apartment's wifi was trash


Years later I realize that I never cancelled my subscription and had been paying Google for like 3 years for stadia despite not playing it. I'm pretty sure I was the core audience at that point

[big_grub]

I worked at the Apple Store when Google Glasses came out and I remember a guy who bought them literally came into the store to hang out and stood around waiting for people to ask him about them.

[cloud]

I used to have Google plus on my laptop and it was so bad but I miss all of it. the creepy dms, the minion memes, the fake science pages. everything

[raetrillium]

The little cartoon Gabi was adorable I hope we see more of her

[NexLegacyAccount]

Dude it is so vindicating seeing someone in their 20s ranting about the current state of online gaming and the push to make physical copies obsolete. It's all unnecessary bullshit stemming entirely from corporate greed.
Someone needs to do a video on the 2008 EA SecuRom scandal. I was pissed as it was happening and I predicted where things were headed right there.

[Eternalninja]

Google video is how I watched Final Fantasy Advent Children for the first time, and I was able to download it and put it on my iPod video! Great memories.

[peterd.]

I'll never forgive Google for giving up on Google Glass. I still dream of the day that I'll be able to scroll through sick memes while pretending to have meaningful conversations with my stupid idiot friends and loved ones.

[jekrixlokan]

Honestly you brining up ebola hit me with the weirdest sense of nostalgia I've ever had. 2014 was 9 years ago holy shit

[EmersonFlemingEmRock]

Damn, I miss when Google's experiments were ill-fated MMOs and not terrifying AI models that the creators left in fear of their potential power...

[SirJoshuaTree]

Man, it hurts every time I hear how much some people struggled with Stadia. Sure, it wasn't perfect, but I have about 300Mb internet and it worked great for me. It was easy to take between houses when visiting family (who had worse internet and it was still fine) and take between the couch and desktop. The marketing really let it down. You could play all of your games from a browser window anywhere (with a good internet connection). That's so freaking cool. A little ahead of its time, I think, and having to buy a copy of the game that you can only ever stream kind of sucks, but Google actually made two huge pro-consumer moves when shutting down by refunding ALL Stadia hardware and store purchases AND making the controllers upgradable to be generic bluetooth controllers so they weren't garbage. I got three free bluetooth controllers and chromecasts out of that deal lol

[honeyglaze]

Google+ was my home when I was a lonely kid growing up with no friends, since I was able to find people who had my same interests and have an escape from my shitty homelife. (Of course I used it to role play warrior cats as a 4th grader, but it was the best time of my life). I would sell my soul to have Google+ back

[mhauser]

i know there are a ton of other services and products that you didn't get to mention but the one that really irked me was the terrible way google music was killed off and replaced with youtube music, just so they could transition to a streaming service instead of being able to own your own music library

[annefrankenstein]

"If Runscape and Maple Story could do this 20 years ago, i think they can figure it out."

PREACH GIRL!!!

[Welander_]

I remember when Google's motto was "Don't be evil"