Tepid Results from Google's New Product Process

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday June 30, 2006 @01:20AM from the still-a-fan-of-their-search-thingie dept.

bart_scriv writes "BusinessWeek digs into Google's new products, first interviewing Marissa Mayer on the process behind the recent flurry of product launches; the essential process: 'try a bunch of new ideas, refine them and see what survives'. How successful is the process? Despite lots of fanfare, a close look at the products reveals that Google still hasn't produced a huge winner: 'An analysis of some two dozen new ventures launched over the past four years shows that Google has yet to establish a single market leader outside its core search business, where it continues to chew up Microsoft and Yahoo.'"

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Invitation only by mangu · 2006-06-30 02:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

The reason why I don't use Gmail is because I was never offered an invitation. Same goes for Orkut. I'm not a dog, I won't beg for food. I shouldn't need to say "please, pretty please, let me use Gmail!!!".

Let's get this straight: they are a company, I'm a customer. There are certain well-accepted rules that define who should do the begging. If Google thinks they can become a business leader by catering only to their own definition of who is "133t", they need a big revamping of their marketing department.