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Quentin Hugon, Benjamin Benoit and Damien Leloup have created a memorial page for projects adandoned by Google over the years including: Google Answers, Lively, Reader, Deskbar, Click-to-Call, Writely, Hello, Send to Phone, Audio Ads, Google Catalogs, Dodgeball, Ride Finder, Shared Stuff, Page Creator, Marratech, Goog-411, Google Labs, Google Buzz, Powermeter, Real Estate, Google Directory, Google Sets, Fast Flip, Image Labeler, Aardvark, Google Gears, Google Bookmarks, Google Notebook, Google Code Search, News Badges, Google Related, Latitude, Flu Vaccine Finder, Google Health, Knol, One Pass, Listen, Slide, Building Maker, Meebo, Talk, SMS, iGoogle, Schemer, Notifier, Orkut, Hotpot, Music Trends, Refine, SearchWiki, US Government Search, Sparrow, Web Accelerator, Google Accelerator, Accessible Search, Google Video, and Helpouts. Missing from the list that we remember are Friend Connect, Google Radio Ads, Jaiku, SideWiki, and Wave.
We knew there were a lot, but who knew there'd be so many. Which abandoned Google project do you wish were still around?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Saturday March 07 2015, @08:54PM
I've worked on both sides at cloud-ish providers and cloud customer and I assure you WRT support and reliability you're not worth a penny more than their median cost of sales to replace you. If thats free or $5 you're in big trouble when things go wrong. Which they eventually will.
Lets say you're a company who's lifeblood is email, core part of your revenue generation (not spam, I was thinking of a specific technical translation services company) and your cloud email provider whom you pay $19/mon isn't working, you won't get a penny more than $19/mon of service or reliability.
This is why some little company pays a sysadmin $90K/yr for email... its not that providing email costs $90K when everything is working, its that the revenue hit of email being down greatly exceeds $90K/yr and they get "more than" $90K/yr of service, repair, and responsiveness.
And this is the core problem with SaaS or cloud or whatever buzzword of the week.