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The mistake Google has done here is that it deploys and launches and uses to garner attention projects under it's name. There is little to no, this is an exper
by eftychis 3y ago
The mistake Google has done here is that it deploys and launches and uses to garner attention projects under it's name.
There is little to no, this is an experimental project by x team. It is this is a Google product.
If everything is a product and you don't support most or expect most to die, then you damage the collective product that is the Google brand. And as a result how your employees feel and are treated about experimenting.
- eastbound 3y ago> There is little to no “this is an experimental project by x team” They communicated quite clearly when products were in beta. For example, they communicated clearly that Gmail was in Beta until 2009 (launched in 2004). What’s less clear is what makes a beta, when a tremendously successful product remains in beta for so long. Another product that came out of beta in 2009 was… drumrolls… Google Reader[1]. [1] https://www.alphr.com/news/home-and-leisure/125603/google-reader-comes-out-of-beta/ https://www.alphr.com/news/home-and-leisure/125603/google-re...
- khuey 3y agoGoogle Domains was born in 2015, exited beta in 2022, and was killed in 2023.
- saagarjha 3y agoThey do that, this is what their various Labs and subsidiaries and internal accelerators are there for. The issue is that people figure out it's associated with Google and then expect it to be maintained as such.
- Vinnl 3y agoI do wonder how people figured out that Google was associated with Google+, Google Inbox, Google Reader, Google Talk, Google Video, Google Wave, ... (I'm just kidding; I don't actually hold a grudge against Google for terminating projects. Although I do miss Inbox. And it does looks like Google Labs was killed too?)