Tell me a single good social app from Google. I'll wait. It's not like they didn't try, but all of them seem to suffer from the design by committee syndrome.

YouTube? It's the second largest social media site in the world:

https://buffer.com/library/social-media-sites/

Every content creator who gets a major voice on the platform laments the absence of a competing platform to move to.

Youtube is successful coz of google infrastructure not google decisions/methodology.

Now Google is trying to move Youtube into becoming a hollywood-lite experience and providing major support to entrenched hollywood celebs like will smith/brie larson(they even bypassed monetization policies for larson - her first video launched with full monetisation in play)

They bought it after it had already established its market presence.

They have tried to launch at least 2 of their own, and both flopped hard.

The only one legitimately and accidentally created by Google was: Google Reader

Orkut: stagnated and killed

G+: design by committee as you said

YT: acquired but the social aspects are down the drain

We can complain about FB and Zuckerberg as much as we want but they knew how to evolve the network and keep the users

I'm still convinced that what was the true killer of G+ was the slow rollout.

It's like Google forgot that a social network needs to be social. Limiting how many people could get on G+ created hype for sure, but whenever someone got a invite, they realized none (or very few) of their friends were on it, and quickly forgot about it.

The slow rollout approach worked for GMail because your friends didn't need GMail for it to work for you.

What was that social network that used to be bigger than Facebook in Brazil? Orkit I think? It was something like that.

Edit: Oh, I forgot the one staring me in the face—Youtube! It's no less of a social network than TikTok.

google settled a lawsuit with affinity engines after the engineer came over to google and misappropriated trade secrets. lol the irony.. Google bought youtube..

Google is completely incapable of coming up with their own successful social network.

Google bought YouTube, but it was hardly a social network when they bought it.

Orkut

Do those three ever truly come out with something new, or do they just buy up existing tech?