Comments on: Google’s Top Disappointments

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nicole’s list is crap – if she is not a shareholder, she should not be bitching!

By: Sebastian P.

Sebastian P. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

GMail is one of the most successful things Google has done, tonnes of people, including me, swear by it.

Plenty of software might never leave Beta; that doesn’t make it any less worth using if it does its job well, and the outage today is the only outage I’ve seen since I started using GMail sometime in ‘04.

By: jon bradford

jon bradford — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

every man and his dog have launched online storage, backup solutions etc – for a company strongly advocating cloud computing I am stunned by the lack of movement on “gdrive”.

If (or when) “gdrive” is launched it will have to be ground breaking – otherwise it will undermine their strong market position – i mean even MS is already in this market

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Allen,

Great post. I really must admit that I am really disappointed very much in the Feedburner ad network, as well as Orkut. Google has some great sites.. and they have made some great acquisitions, but they still havent gelled everything in correctly yet!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I feel like Google has taken on too much at once… many of these things could have possibly been more successful had they rolled out each one slowly and surely – with lots of attention on each… each month they come out with something new (which I guess they have to in order to keep up with the others) but I mean who do they have to TRULY keep up with… themselves? Certainly NOT Yahoo and MSN… they’re lightyears ahead…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Just one simple sentence. Girl, you’re a totally stupid.

By: Richard- Byrne

Richard- Byrne — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Allen,
If you get the Great Lawn at Central Park, I’ll bring the marshmallows.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

IMO, YouTube to me is their biggest disappointment – not because it has 100m users (I get that) but because it hasn’t been able to do anything with them.

What you mention, of brand sponsoring, seems like a good idea but I wonder if the content-owners will want to go ’solo’ on this one (like NBC’s HULU) which I *think* has a better chance of being profitable.