The death of Google Wave got me to thinking about what all Google is into these days. Here’s a list I threw together:

• Advertising (online/offline/mobile)
• Mobile phones
• Desktop computing
• Music
• Video
• Books
• Search
• Social networking
• email
• File storage
• Document management
• Spreadsheets
• Presentation software
• Social gaming
• Translation
• ecommerce
• Mapping
• Health records
• News
• Blogging
• Photo sharing
• Instant messaging
• Telephony
• 3D Modeling
• Browsers
• Code sharing/ storage
• Hosting
• Calendars
• Scholarly documents and articles
• RSS reading
• Website statistics
• DNS
• Patent search
• Application hosting
• Encyclopedic information (Wikipedia like)

Being into that many things as a company is surely going to create some duds. So is the “Make lots of stuff, and see what sticks” a viable way to run a long term business? Does it eventually create frustration, and mistrust in your users when you don’t wholeheartedly commit to everything you make?