“Failures are the pillars of success” rightly demonstrated by Google. Since its inception in 1998, Google has been very successful company generating more than $24 billion in revenue. But success doesn’t come with comfort, there are always some pitfalls. For Google, the pitfalls are the products that failed to impress and/or generate interest. The WordStream team has compiled all these failures into a giant infographic (portmanteau for Information Graphics) as displayed below.

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Some of the dead Google Products are –

# Google X in 2005

# Google Answers in 2006

# Video Player in 2007

# Web Accelerator in 2008

# Google Catalog in 2009

# Audio Ads in 2009

# Dodgeball in 2009

# Jaiku in 2009

# Google Wave in 2010

# Wiki Search in 2010

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PS: I am sorry to avid Gtricks readers for not posting articles for a long time.Now I will definitely update it weekly. Kindly accept my apologies.