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Google makes games... just not very well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lively

Ok, that's a bit harsh perhaps. In its favor it was a decent idea to merge social gaming and the web, perhaps a bit ahead of its time. I could easily see 3D elements as commonplace on the web in 2012 or so.

And then there's:

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

Which is the same concept as Luis von Ahn's ESP Game, only Googlified and drained of any interface elements that would make the thing actually fun.




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