[jmilloy]

As you suggest, just because some idea was dropped doesn't mean that Google did the wrong thing. But, it also doesn't mean that they didn't abandon the idea, so it ends up here in a list. I don't see any general Google bashing yet.

Similarly, I'd put a phonograph in a museum, even though it's features have been replaced by other things.

[kedean]

I'm not a google apologist, but the list definitely has a few undeserved products. The most obvious is Writely, which was simply rebranded to Google Docs, then further rebranded to Google Drive. The writely.com domain even redirects to Drive.