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It is a cycle. Google drops a product due to low uptick, so users don't take on further products. There are three products that I can think of that have lasted:
by sethammons 8y ago
It is a cycle. Google drops a product due to low uptick, so users don't take on further products. There are three products that I can think of that have lasted: search, email, ads (which is search, really).
[edit] oh, and maps!
- jedberg 8y agoVoice. I've been using Voice for probably 10 years now. Most of the functionality has been subsumed by Hangouts, but it's still there and they even updated it within the last year.
- IvyMike 8y agoShhhh! I'm convinced Voice only stays because it's under the radar of upper management. Don't remind them it exists!
- saghm 8y agoChrome?
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- kenhwang 8y agoIt could very well be the other way around too: product is getting too popular and doesn't have ads, but directly competes with our product that does have ads. Reader/iGoogle didn't have ads, but stopped you from visiting places that did have ads. Inbox didn't have ads, but was directly pulling users away from gmail which does.
- icebraining 8y agoGoogle Docs? Calendar? Groups? YouTube? Plus Android and Chrome, of course.
- benrussert 8y agoSearch.
- cannonedhamster 8y agoThey bought Youtube and it served Ads. Calendar is part of Gmail. Groups is pretty much dead and hasn't been upgraded in years. Android and Chrome are part of Ads. Docs is probably the only new feature that they've developed, but people pay a good amount of money for it.