Saturday, January 24, 2009

Google: The Quick, the Sick, and the Dead

In the spirit of the Dapocalypse, and inspired by a recent Google Sites bug, I'm going divide the Google products I pay attention to into three groups: The Quick, The Sick, and the Dead.

This would not be a good time to start relying on items in the Sick list.

The Quick
  • Search and Scholar
  • Android
  • Google Reader
  • Gmail
  • Google Contacts (added 2/9/2009)
  • Google Video Chat
  • Google Mobile Sync (added 2/9/2009)
  • Blogger
  • Chrome
  • Picasa and Picasa Web Albums
  • Calendar
  • Maps
  • Earth
  • News
  • Browser toolbars
  • Translate
The Sick
  • Google Sites
  • Google Apps
  • GrandCentral
  • Gmail Tasks
  • Custom search engines
  • YouTube
  • Shopping
  • Google Groups
  • Google Checkout
  • Google Base
  • Orkut
  • Talk
  • Desktop
  • iGoogle
  • Knol
  • Mobile
  • Documents (Presentation is near death, Docs is sick, Spreadsheet is quick)
  • Google Health (added 6/09)
The Dead
  • Google Notebook*
  • Google Page Creator*
  • Google Browser Sync
  • Google Video
* Zombie, or walking dead

I'll revise the list over time, but I think most migration will be downwards.

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