Comments on: Do Google's Products EVER Leave Beta?

By: Jon Berg

Jon Berg — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:24:41 +0000

Google Suggest another Beta :)
It can read your mind…. spooky!

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

By: Jon Berg

Jon Berg — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 03:24:33 +0000

I think it is a bit of the spirit of Google, hire as many computer people as possible and just see what they come up with. Up it to production state if it starts to make any money. For Froogle I think it is bad. Publishers that have a store have to upload a file every other month with all their files if they are not automatically crawled. And in the process there is at least to steps witch involves some Google person that has to approve it. First your store must be “approved” then your feed must be “approved”. This will not work in a big scale unless they charge money for listings, which they currently state they don’t.

By: Mattias Johansson

Mattias Johansson — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:04:20 +0000

Hehe, ICQ is a lot worse. I don’t think they’ve ever released a non-beta version.

By: Clete R. Blackwell 2

Clete R. Blackwell 2 — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:09:07 +0000

Google News is not pointless, I use it every once in a while, it’s quite nice.

I’ll agree on Froogle, it’s kind of pointless, as you can’t trust all of the sites that it crawls. It would be nice if you could choose only certain stores (outpost.com, bestbuy.com, circuitcity.com, toysrus.com, walmart.com, etc.), THEN it would have a point.

Orkut: January 2004
Google Local: March 2004
Google Scholar: November 2004

Never heard of any of those.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 07:36:50 +0000

I just found out about Google Scholar too and love it. (Though I would like to see an ability to sort by date).

Personally, I’m just glad that they do release these to the general public for “beta” testing. Just think about all the things they are working on in private “alpha” testing right now that hasn’t gotten to the beta stage yet!

You probably forgot the most important one. Back in ’99 Google (as in the search) was still beta. http://www.google.com/holidaylogos99.html

By: Nathan Wong

Nathan Wong — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 01:34:22 +0000

Google News is in beta since they’re realized it’s profitless :p

Local’s yet to be perfected. Scholar came out like, 2 days ago..

Froogle I would assume is similar to News, it’s profitless.. gmail I think still has a few issues, and lack of features (I think gmail’s actually in beta, not just “beta”), and I’ve never even looked at orkut so I have no idea about that one.

By: Ensight - Jeremy C. Wright » The Code Behind Google Scholar

Ensight - Jeremy C. Wright » The Code Behind Google Scholar — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

[...] The whole web has been raving about the new beta from Google (see my rant here). So, in keeping with being a fun and sharing commu [...]

By: figby.com » The Google ABC

figby.com » The Google ABC — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

[...] d under: General — 10:30 pm Google loves to create beta products, as Jeremy points out. The latest is Google Suggest, a demo of what Google l [...]