18 Google products that bombed, died, or disappeared (GOOG, GOOGL)

Google is known for its collection of wildly popular products, from search to maps to Android.But not everything the company touches turns to gold.Google Glass was supposed to change the world, but it quickly became a punch line. And remember Google Buzz'Now, Gchat is the latest in a string of discontinued Google products.Here's a look at some Google products that are now relics of the past:SEE ALSO:What it's really like to work at Google, the best company to work for in the USGoogle Answers started as an idea from Larry Page, and was the first project Google worked on. Answers lasted for more than four years but stopped accepting questions in 2006.Source: GoogleLively, Google's virtual worlds, lasted a little over a year. Google said it created Lively because it "wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways," but it just didn't catch on. Lively was shut down in 2008.Source: GoogleGoogle first unveiled Glass in dramatic fashion in 2012, but the device never made it to the masses. Glass came with a high price tag, software issues, potential privacy problems, and it generally looked too nerdy. Google ended consumer sales of Glass in January 2015, but it continues to sell the device to businesses and is working on a new version.Source: Business InsiderSee the rest of the story at Business Insider
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