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Joe Anderson is running a critique on Google - not the search aspect, gmail, or Reader - and the failure of many of its applications.  He discusses the dismal ‘Google Answers’ and even less popular ‘Google Video’, but missed what I believe are the most “use-less” Google applications.  When I use the term “use-less”, I do not mean that the applications are poorly designed or implemented, they just are not as useful as the competition.

1. Google Product Search - The description of this application is, “Search for stuff to buy.”  Great, a second search engine that crawls the same websites as Google itself.  I am yet to find a use for this.
2. Google Finance - Come on, we already have Fidelity, E*Trade, CNN Money, and a myriad of other financial repositories;  stay out of this are Google.
3. Google Health - No matter what anyone tells you, putting medical records online is an awful idea.  For that matter, medical records should not even be on your computer where they are easily accessible by anyone with computer knowledge.

What Google application is the most “use-less” to you?  Which is the most “use-ful”?

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