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Not everything Google touches turns to gold. These are some of Google’s biggest nonstarter Web services, software programs, and business moves.
Google Incorporated is arguably the most successful Internet company today. But Google didn’t get to where it is without takings risks–some of which have failed spectacularly.
For example, remember the Google Accelerator, which was supposed to speed up Web surfing? (A dubious claim, but least it was free.) But you had to pay to get a Google Answer, and eventually people stopped asking. Google Video did so well that the company finally gave up and shelled out big bucks to buy YouTube. If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em.
Some Google flops lasted no more than a day and then vanished without a trace. Other Google efforts have been left to languish like a neglected orphan inside Google’s labyrinth of Web services. Still other dogs were released as betas nearly five years ago and are still trapped in Google Labs with apparently little hope of escaping the test tube.
Our list of Google’s lead balloons is by no means exhaustive; if you have other candidates, by all means, point them out in our comments section below.
Artwork: Chip Taylor
It’s official! Steve Jobs should ask for a pay raise! According to Forbes, Oracle’s Larry Ellison came first in 2007 as the best paid CEO (although he doesn’t seem to need his salary, since he is no. 14 among the world’s billionaires, with an estimated $25 billion of assets), topping big names such as Apple’s Steve Jobs (no wonder, the poor man is paid $1 for the job!).
The top 10 best paid CEO are as follows: Larry Ellison (Oracle) – $192.9 million, Nabeeb Gareel (MEMC Electronic Materials) – $79.6 million, John Cambers (Cisco) – $54.8 million, Mark Hurd (HP) – $27.6 million, Jen-Hsun Huang (NVIDIA) – $24.6 million, Samual Palmisano (IBM) – $24.3 million, Wendell Weeks (Corning) – $22.6 million, Joseph Tucci, EMC – $20 million, William Sullivan (Agilent) – $17.4 million, Paul Otellini (Intel) – $16.3 million.
Steve Jobs not only didn’t make it on the top 10 list, but 2007 was far less productive than 2006: this time he took home an estimated $14.6 million in compensation, compared to 2006 when he took compensations estimated at $646 million (oh, it’s nice to have stocks!).
The secret to making it to Forbes’ top list: don’t lose your job! Yahoo’s former Chief Executive Officer Terry Semel didn’t make it this year, and neither did Michael Dell, the founder of Dell, who is currently working hard to bring Dell to the light (however, he does have some pretty good savings, in case things don’t work out so well; Forbes estimated his value at $16 billion, making him the 40th richest person in the world).
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