Since Google is so slow to euthanize its weaker offspring, how about some prodding? Even after the closure of Google Answers, the search company still has 85 search projects, web apps and other products, and the engineers are no doubt working on more wacky pet schemes in their 20 per cent time. They can't all be worth keeping. Your suggestions for the next cull, in comments, please, or to tips@gawker.com. Froogle? Send to Phone? Sketch Up? Joga Bonito? If you need to jog your memory, there's a full list of candidates, here, on the Wikipedia list of Google products.

Contact information for this author is not available.