Comments on: Google: Profiting from failure

Company has built failure into its business model. And amazingly enough, it's a roaring success.

[gagahput3ra]

Did i just read "the failure of Android"? Really? From when did Google called Android "iPhone killer" like all the media does? The thing about Android is just a media overhype with Google's average delivery. It's not yet a failure from my point of view.

[consultpeter]

Your print application is worthless. Who wants to print all that junk on the page plus additional pages other than the subject article? Have tried to cut and paste but you have somehow also screwed that up as even this small piece ends up on about 3 pages with tons of spacing. I just want to print the article, nothing else!!!

[jenguevin]

You're right! It looks like this problem sprang up after our redesign. We're working to get it fixed now. Thanks for pointing out the problem.

Jennifer Guevin
Assistant managing editor
CNET News

[clamenza]

Why doesn't Google suffer much if any cost to its reputation despite the numerous failures? You can probably count on one finger its successful product launches apart from the search engine. Even those "successes" like gmail and docs did not or have not developed into category killers. So why do people still clamor for new products like Chrome?

[kflak]

insighfull? did the press just figure out that everything Google does is about displaying adds? gmail was originally a way to get customers to create logins so they would know more about them, they did not pour tons a dollars into google checkout to actually make money as a payment service, it was all about getting more information about their users so they can better target advertising to them, everything Google does comes back to free and easy access to Google and learning more about users so they can better monitize the advertising they show useser,