Google kills off seven more products

From what I've heard from people who work at Google, the environment there is one where there are tons of projects ongoing but seemingly little long-term dedication/passion in making these products successful.

Employees do what's in their job description but don't go above and beyond because they don't know if the project is going to be continued to be supported by upper management. Its a self-fulfillng feeling of inevitable failure. My impression is that management needs to have better vision and commitment other than "let's throw everything half-hearted at the wall and see what may miraculously stick".

However, Google is still the king of search and making gobs of money - at least they're still doing the biggest and most important part of their products right.

I was surprised when I learned that google was launching a project to search for efficient renewable energy sources - doesn't seem like their field at all. That they are closing it now without having produced much (has anyone heard about anything they might have figured out?) makes me wonder if there was ever such a projet or if they did it just for PR.

Could be due to them refocusing on five products as suggested by the late Steve Jobs to Page

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-steve-jobs-infl...

How about Brand Fatigue? could it be that people are tired of hearing Google this Google that. Why can’t Google build brand from the ground up for some of their products?

UGH very sad to see RE<C going away. With Google's resources , both technical and people, I thought they would do great things in the renewable energy space.

Google's 11' strategy to kill product and go crazy on the monetization of GAE, Maps and things like that doesn't make it the attractive company it used to be ?

Has the Apache Wave project produced anything approaching the normal Wave experience yet? I'd love to run it on my own server.

forgot google health

Wave is the latest on the chopping block? You don't say!

They're diverting resources to google x, so expect something big or bigger than the self driving car coming out soon.

This is politics plain and simple.