Killed by Google, visualized: 49 of 299 retired products…
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Killed by Google, visualized: 49 of 299 retired products clustered in just two specific years
This is built entirely on top of killedbygoogle.com https://sheets.works/data-viz/dead-google , the canonical, community-maintained list. Full credit and huge respect to Cody Ogden who runs it. None of this exists without that project.
I wanted to see if there was a pattern in WHEN Google retires things, not just what. Killedbygoogle.com https://sheets.works/data-viz/dead-google s a near-perfect catalog, but it's intentionally a flat list. I was curious whether the retirements were spread out evenly across years or whether they clustered, and if they clustered, what story the dates would tell.
The thing that actually happened: of the 299 products in the list, 49 of them were parked in just two specific years.
\- 26 in 2011 + 23 in 2012, during Larry Page's first year back as CEO (the "more wood behind fewer arrows" period)
\- 37 in 2019 alone, Sundar Pichai's first full year as CEO of the Alphabet
The page I made is essentially a visual layer on top of killedbygoogle.com's data.
Source data: killedbygoogle.com https://sheets.works/data-viz/dead-google everything), enriched with Wikipedia + Wikidata + contemporary press for the deeper dossiers. All the heavy lifting on the dataset itself is Cody's.
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This is built entirely on top of killedbygoogle.com https://sheets.works/data-viz/dead-google , the canonical, community-maintained list. Full credit and huge respect to Cody Ogden who runs it. None of this exists without that project.
I wanted to see if there was a pattern in WHEN Google retires things, not just what. Killedbygoogle.com https://sheets.works/data-viz/dead-google s a near-perfect catalog, but it's intentionally a flat list. I was curious whether the retirements were spread out evenly across years or whether they clustered, and if they clustered, what story the dates would tell.
The thing that actually happened: of the 299 products in the list, 49 of them were parked in just two specific years.
\- 26 in 2011 + 23 in 2012, during Larry Page's first year back as CEO (the "more wood behind fewer arrows" period)
\- 37 in 2019 alone, Sundar Pichai's first full year as CEO of the Alphabet
The page I made is essentially a visual layer on top of killedbygoogle.com's data.
Source data: killedbygoogle.com https://sheets.works/data-viz/dead-google everything), enriched with Wikipedia + Wikidata + contemporary press for the deeper dossiers. All the heavy lifting on the dataset itself is Cody's.
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