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8 Google Products Larry Page Should Kill 1
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Release time：2011-01-27
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In its Q4 earnings call last week, Google said that it will be more aggressive about getting rid of experiments and products that aren't working.
As CFO Patrick Pichette said, the company will let Google business units compete for users, then it will "feed the winners" and "starve the losers."
Apart from search, Google named four businesses as winners: display advertising, Android, YouTube, and Google Enterprise.
As losers, Google pointed to its quick retreat on Wave and the Nexus One direct-to-consumer strategy for Android.
When Larry Page takes over as CEO on April 4th, here are some more losers he should cut.
Knol: like Wikipedia, but not as useful
Knol was supposed to provide a more authoritative source than Wikipedia -- articles are written by subject matter experts -- but after almost two years, the site has so many gaps in content that it's practically worthless. Google should be indexing the Web's knowledge, not providing a half-hearted storehouse for some randomly selected portion of it.
In fact, this one's been on the deathwatch list for so long, it's amazing that it's still around. But it's still listed on Google's products page.
Orkut: because Brazil is not enough
Being the biggest social network in Brazil isn't a credible response to Facebook. Orkut has too many users for Google to shut it down, but the company should easily be able to find a buyer.
Buzz: who uses it?
Google Buzz looks a lot like Facebook, with one big difference -- almost nobody uses it. Privacy concerns scared a lot of users away early on, and despite being integrated into Gmail, it just hasn't taken off.
Health: too much work, too little reward
If Google Health really made it easy to organize your medical records in one place it might be useful. But right now it only supports automatic imports from a handful of other online sources, and entering information manually is a huge chore -- do you really want to spend your weekend entering your health insurance information into a Web site when most of it is probably in your insurance provider's site already? Google Health is not going to revolutionize the health care industry and it's way outside Google's core business.Source from Business Insider
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