Not everything Google creates is a smash hit. Remember Google Glass?REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage
- Google has dozens of popular hardware and software products.
- But there are many Google innovations that have crashed and burned, or slowly petered out over time, like Google Glass and Google Plus.
- Google has killed off a few major products over the last few years, including Inbox by Gmail and Allo, yet another Google-made messaging app.
- The latest casualty is Google Play Music, Google's music library and streaming service.
Google is known for its collection of wildly popular products, from Search to Maps to Android. But not everything the company touches turns to gold.
Google Glass was supposed to change the world, but it quickly became a punch line. And remember Google Buzz?
Now, Google has killed off yet another app, Google Play Music. The music service app never gained the popularity of its competitors, Spotify and Apple Music, and Google will shut it down for good this year.
Of course, sometimes the best innovations are the ones that everybody thinks are doomed to fail early on but then eventually take off, so it makes sense that Google has had its fair share of misses over the years. Still, we highlighted some of the major products that have ended up in the Google graveyard.
(There are plenty more, however: an avid coder named Cody Ogden created a website listing all the products Google has ditched over the years. Ogden's site, Killed by Google, lists over 200 now-defunct products.)
Here's a look at 21 of Google's biggest misses.