You Won’t Be Able To See These 18 Google Products Anywhere. They Disappeared Completely!

As one of the most prominent tech companies in the world, Google has developed a variety of products from apps, web-based virtual environment, to the glass. However, not all of its products reach success as the company expects. And here is the list of product failures Google may feel unhappy when mentioning them.

1. Allo – The instant messaging app

Google Allo was officially shut down in March 2019.

The tech company had put a lot of expectations in this application before releasing it to the world, but what they received was clearly contrary to what they thought. In May 2016, the app Allo was first introduced at a developer conference that was held by Google itself. In March 2019, the company officially put an end to the smart app.

2. Google Buzz

As a social networking tool, the product came to Google users via Gmail; however, a series of privacy issues made it unable to become a dispensable part of our daily life. In October 2011, the project was officially shut down, and Google decided to move to Google+.

3. Google Answers

This project started operation in April 2002 and stopped in 2006. Larry Page was the one to build Google Answers from the initial steps.

4. Lively

Lively didn’t get the expectations as the company hoped.

As a web-based virtual environment, Lively was designed to help “users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways.” It’s a pity that it didn’t get the expectations as the company hoped.

5. Glass

The product came to the public seven years ago (2012); however, it was never allegedly suitable for all users. Glass had a lot of issues, for example, software issues, privacy issues, as well as too high price. In addition, its appearance didn’t catch users’ eyes.

After three years, the tech giant stopped bringing it to its users, but the product keeps being purchased by businesses.

6. Google Play Version For Android smartphones

Spring 2014 was the time Google Play was first introduced on Android smartphones. Only after one year, the company attached the project with the tag “no longer available for sale”.

7. Google Wave

Google Wave - a playground to help users to chat with each other via messages.

It helped users to chat with each other via messages, as well as edit the same documents. However, its users had a lot of troubles when using the app. As a result, the company stopped investments on the project in August 2010.

8. Google X

Google X was considered as an alternative to the search engine’s interface. The notable thing here is that the project just worked on only one day. It was shut down in March 2005, and now it has been the name of the company’s secret research lab.

9. Google Video

The project was designed as one of the video-streaming services offered by the tech giant before YouTube became its asset in 2006. Since 2009, Google Video no longer provided new uploads; however, along with YouTube, it still kept working until 2012.

10. Nexus Q

Nexus Q worked as a streaming media player that could connect all devices in a household. In 2012, it was first released at the company’s developer conference. The product was expectedly sold for $299 and unfortunately, many tech blogs gave bad reviews on it. That’s why the company decided to stop Nexus Q before it had a chance to approach its users in reality.

11. Google Health

In the beginning, the company planned to help its users to update the information on wellness and health via the app, but after that, it decided to shut it down. Reasons behind this were the app was "not having the broad impact that we hoped it would."

12. Google Reader

The app was designed to help users to easily follow the latest news from news sites and blogs. It did no longer work since March 2013 and after four months, the company really put an end to this app.

13. Google Catalogs

As a shopping program, it created digital catalogues to enhance the interaction between customers and vendors. The Catalogs’s mobile version was shut down in 2013, and its desktop version got the same destiny in 2015. 16. iGoogle

The project came to the public in 2005 and stopped its operation after 8 years (in 2013). It offered widgets to its users, and therefore, they could customize the homepages to their liking.

14. Orkut

The service didn’t belong to its popular "20% time" project; however, it gained much more attention from the whole world than that in the United States. In 2014, the company officially shut it down.

15. Hangouts On Air

It worked as an efficient live streaming service since 2012 before YouTube Live has become more popular in September 2016. Pope Francis and Former President Barack Obama also used the service to impart information to their citizens.

16. Dodgeball

In 2005, the tech giant bought the service which allowed users to check in at many locations all over the world. Dennis Crowley, along with many other Dodgeball founders didn’t work for the company any more in 2007. Besides, Crowley established his own service called Foursquare with a lot of similarities in the next two years.

17. Google+

The social networking service was killed after its users' profile data was exposed. The number of victims reached up to hundreds of thousands of cases. According to The Wall Street Journal report, Google’s managers didn’t reveal the related information on the software issue.

18. Notebook

Before Google Docs was introduced, users often used Notebook as a tool to copy & paste URLs, as well as create shareable or publishable notes. The project no longer received the development from the company in 2009 and was officially killed in 2012.