Why Google's New Products Need Not Succeed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 17, 2006 @04:01AM from the in-and-of-themselves-heretofore-thereunder dept.

RJS writes "There have been some industry analysts lately who have called into question Google's real success, claiming that while Google's search remains a big winner, it has missed the mark when it comes to generating profitable, secondary products. BusinessWeek has just such an article ("So much fanfare, so few hits") but others argue that success relative to the size of Google's bread-and-butter (search) ultimately doesn't matter because it doesn't cost Google much extra to keep these secondary services — like Gmail — operational: the Google grid is on and growing regardless of what services are being run on top of it."

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Re:Sure, they want to make money by iced_773 · 2006-08-17 04:21 · Score: 5, Informative

Gmail offers POP3 for free while Yahoo makes you subscribe to Yahoo Plus.

Also, Google Sketchup is pretty neat...
Re:I hate GMAIL by navarroj · 2006-08-17 05:01 · Score: 3, Informative

Yes, you don't understand it.

Archive everything to keep your Inbox clear. Then search for old messages when you need them, by labels, by people, or by keywords. You don't have to see a "cluttered view" of your mail.