Monday, May 22, 2006

The Google Oscars

If I had to vote for...

• The best Google feature:
  Gmail’s conversations feature
• The worst Google feature:
  BlogSpot comments functionality
• The best-looking Google homepage by sheer beauty:
  Blogger.com
• The worst-looking Google homepage by sheer ugliness:
  Orkut.com
• Google’s coolest holiday logo:
  Google’s M.C. Escher logo
• Google’s worst holiday logo:
  Google’s animated Halloween 2000 logo
• Google’s most useless but fun web page:
  Google’s Valentine’s Day site
• Google’s most evil product:
  Google AdSense for Domainsquatters Domains
• Google’s best decision ever:
  Analyze backlinks to rank pages
• Google’s worst decision ever:
  Self-censor search results in China
• Google’s best-kept secret:
  Google Answers
• Google’s least innovative product:
  Google Blog Search
• Google’s most innovative product:
  Gmail
• Google’s coolest release in 2006:
  Google Trends
• Google’s best desktop product:
  SketchUp
• Google’s weirdest release in 2006:
  Google Co-op
• Google’s most interesting Labs product that never graduated:
  Google Sets
• Google’s worst product launch measured by number of sites it took down:
  Google Analytics
• A Google service that most improved since launch:
  The official Google Blog
• A Google service that lost the most features since launch:
  Google Video
• Google’s most cluttered service:
  Google Desktop
• Google service with shortest lifetime ever:
  Google X
• Google’s biggest missing feature:
  A web-wide video search

What are your categories and votes?

The Google Oscars by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (49)

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