Gadgetory

when the company has as many successful products as Google you get the impression that everything they touch turns to gold well it doesn't I'm Donna Bell and in this episode the top five we're gonna take a quick look back at some Google products that didn't live up to their expectation number five harkens back to an era when the internet was crazy about Second Life Google wasn't gonna get left behind so they made this they called it lively and the reason you've never heard of it it's because Google pulled the plug after just six months at number four google buzz aside from the fact that no one knew why they needed Google's awkward social network it was a privacy nightmare right out of the gate one I've seen its most popular articles on Google Buzz was how to turn it off number three is gonna get me some hate mail but I'm giving it to Google's Android 3 tablet OS honeycomb it was supposed to be Google's iPad killer but it took almost a year before it ran on a tablet that wasn't clunky overpriced or wrapped in a two-year contract at that point Android app developers were already pinning their hopes on Android for at number two Google Wave Google took everything they did well email instant messaging collaboration and they built a glorious mashup that couldn't fail but it did really failed this thing still gives me headaches just looking at it they should have named a Google Titanic now before we get to our number one Google flop and before you start feeling too bad for Google let's take a look at a few of the hundreds of crazy successful Google products that you probably use every day a company like this can afford to fail a few times but I'm sure that this number one still burns a bit Google TV you have to admire the stones it took to launch this without nailing down the major content deals ahead of time and poor Logitech their reward from making Google's set-top box was about a hundred million dollars in lost profits all right that does it for this top 5 for more videos like these head over to top-5 cnet.com or just google it I'm Tom Bell thanks for watching