The german News Magazine Focus online states today, that the majority of Google's services are Flops, that nearly all Services would be difficult to find and that in all these service categories, there would be someone who is doing this better than Google. Someone who wants to be paid for daydreaming should hire at Google... and that service like Froogle are aren't moving at all since years. here the link to this highly arbitrary article: http://focus.msn.de/digital/google-special/internet_nid_33228.html Moreover, pictures show Google Services blaming them for being worse than others or less popular, e.g. gmail, saying yahoo and msn would carry more mails – neglecting how many years they started earlier with this service. The same for the instant Messenger vs. Google Talk, Google News (because Yahoo News are more popular as they pretend), that there is a map service in the US more popular than Google Maps, in financials they rank only Nr. 40, Yahoo being the first; http://focus.msn.de/digital/google-special/google-dienste_aid_23461.html?

Google's Corporate Philosophy would harm the go to market of new services, claims the author, as other services are not promoted there. They would generally only be found through Google Labs... The Journalist appearently did not know that product search results from Froogle and local search results from Google Maps are part of the world's most popular web search results in a so called "One Box" nowadays.

For sure there are things to criticize on Google, but this cheap way doesn't pay off. In a way, they are right with what they say: the majority of the services fail as part of a highly innovative system. much more innovative as media companies like FOCUS... and even more than MSN, their online publishing partner (what a coincidence?) .Nevertheless, it is a strange style of journalism to fight this war at that level. FOCUS advertises in Germany pretending to deliver "facts, facts, facts" – but an alignment of facts giving a wrong big picture is not a fact in itself. In the end, it's going to create discussions which are finally publicity for Google..