Google goes to show, time and again that no amount of resources (including a ton of money) or cross promotion or advertising alone can make a new product a huge

Google goes to show, time and again that no amount of resources (including a ton of money) or cross promotion or advertising alone can make a new product a huge success. Sometimes you just have to be lucky. This is at least the third time Google has tried something like this; most recently they attempted to enter the daily deals market with Google Offers, after groupon turned down a buyout offer.