[bane]

This flakiness is really hurting Google's B2B business. Google tends to do things in a particularly proprietary Googly way that locks companies in, but the history of killing off products makes nobody want to commit to that.

Thus the B2B offerings underperform, making it more likely they'll get killed off.

I follow google reasonably closely and I haven't even heard of a good 40% of these.

[swalsh]

One of the worst designed products I've ever used was the Google Search Appliance. I'd never recommend it to another developer, the user interface is just terrible. We'd pay a bunch of money and what we got was a hard to set up box that was kind of buggy.