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Celebrating Google’s failures

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Seth Weintraub
Seth Weintraub
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By
Seth Weintraub
Seth Weintraub
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August 18, 2010, 10:41 AM ET

With the success of its search engine and products like Android, sometimes it is good to put Google’s efforts into perspective.



As Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt said this month in response to a question about the newly deceased Google Wave, Google celebrates its failures.

“We try things. Remember, we celebrate our failures. This is a company where it’s absolutely okay to try something that’s very hard, have it not be successful, and take the learning from that.”

Click below to see the full Google Graveyard graphic ‘celebration’.

via
Wordstream


A list of Google product failures & Google flops

Infographic by WordStream, an Internet Marketing Software Company

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