#3 Google Print Ads

Life Span: November 2006 – January 2009

Google, the king of web advertisements, once went behind print ads. It started putting ads into news papers. But the product was closed just after two years, apparently due to its inability to generate much revenue or interest.

#2 Google Wave

Life Span: May 2009 – October 2011

Google Wave essentially merged everything- emails, instant messages, wikis and information from social networks. It was one of the heavily hyped products from Google which is intended to facilitate online collaboration. But the service found little adoption and it was essentially overcrowded with people, who don’t know what to do with it.  Google later announced that the complete waves will be deleted by April 2012.

#1 Google Buzz

Life Span: February 2010 – October 2011

Google Buzz can be said as Google’s first effort in the space of social networking. It was a social networking tool which was integrated to the Gmail, which allowed users to share links, photos, comments and so on. Google killed the service in late 2011 to focus on their Google+, the next attempt at social networking.