I don’t even know if that list would be a fair one because those are things we know were killed. We don’t know how many unannounced or secret projects were killed that were basically completed.
My understanding is that these projects are a side-effect of how Google judges promotions. If you’ve “created a new product”, that puts you higher on the list to get promoted.
There are no incentives nor resources for maintaining those products. So you see a long list of “ideas” from Google that are abandoned immediately after someone got their promotion.
Here’s a list from just one major company
I don’t even know if that list would be a fair one because those are things we know were killed. We don’t know how many unannounced or secret projects were killed that were basically completed.
My understanding is that these projects are a side-effect of how Google judges promotions. If you’ve “created a new product”, that puts you higher on the list to get promoted.
There are no incentives nor resources for maintaining those products. So you see a long list of “ideas” from Google that are abandoned immediately after someone got their promotion.
Well “brilliant” may be a stretch for a lot of those…