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In recent years Google has made some great product for the software community. The best in their Search engine where you can search every thing that you want to search, but Google also have developed quite a few blunders too. Even to the extent that some say that among so many plethora of Google services, there are very few that have succedded. Some of them are listed below:
Google X : In 2005 Google tried to show more creativity in their home page by putting some animated Graphics on their home page but it was more or less like the Mac Home Page. Google got in trouble with trademark waters.
- Google Answers : Google Answers is a paid Google answers service. Google Answers more or less like the paid version of very popular Yahoo Answers. To start with Google Answers, Google hired 500 researchers worldwide. But then traffic never really came here to flock!!
Google Local : To help Local search, Google has released it’s So called Google Local but Google Local did not get enough positive response from the Internet users. They were not keen to use the Google Local search and instead, they used Yahoo Local or Live Local. After some time Google Local was merged with Google Maps.
Google Catalogs : Google catalogs is search able directory for scanned pages. Google catalog is faster then other catalog because its a product of Google, but Google catalog is quite dead. Google catalog suffers the problem of character recognition.Google catalog also not indexed properly. There is quite a lot of difference in actual price of product and that you may find over the Google Catalog.
Google Number Service : Google Number search enables users to search query two times fast as compare to their conventional search methods but this service is available only on WAP.
Example of Google Number Service : using the new GNS functionality, a user can spell the word ’super’ by simply typing a 7 for ’s’, 8 for ’u’, and so on. By pressing only five keys (78737), GNS enables a user to search for the word, ’super.’ With conventional input methods, a user would have to press 12 keys (777788733777) for the same word.”