Top 10 Google Flubs, Flops, and Failures
Not everything Google touches turns to gold. These are some of Google's biggest nonstarter Web services, software programs, and business moves.
Tom Spring, PC World
A Google X-File: Google X
One of the most mysterious of Google's flops was its Google X site, a re-designed Google search home page that was styled after the Mac OS Dock user interface on OS X. On the bottom of the page was written "Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you." The site, which launched in 2005, lasted one day before being shuttered by Google for no public reason. Google X may have been pulled because of worries that Apple's copyright lawyers might not appreciate the "homage." But Google X has lived on with many Internet users cloning the interface for anyone to use.
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