17 Google products that bombed, died or disappeared

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Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Google is known for its collection of wildly popular products, from search to maps to Android.

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But not everything the company touches turns to gold.

Google Glass was supposed to change the world, but quickly became a punch line. And remember Google Buzz?

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Of course, the best innovations are the ones that everybody thinks are doomed to fail. So it makes perfect sense that Google has had its fair share of misses over the years.

How many products have ended up in the Google graveyard? We counted 17, but there are probably more (let us know in the comments section below).

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Here's a look at some of Google's biggest misses: