Google platforms scrapped due to poor Health and lack of Power

Not every idea that comes out of the Googleplex catches on and becomes a massively successful online platform.
For every Gmail there's a Google Knol, and for every Google Earth there's a Google Wave.
And now we've got two more Google platforms to add to the scrapped-services pile; Google Health and Google PowerMeter - both of which have been confirmed as doomed by the Big G itself.
"In the coming months, we’re going to retire two products that didn’t catch on the way we would have hoped, but did serve as influential models," read a statement on the Google Blog.
"Both were based on the idea that with more and better information, people can make smarter choices, whether in regard to managing p... »read more

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