It is very well known that the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality is an important property shared by all inner product spaces and the inner product induces a norm on the space. A proof of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for real inner product spaces exists, which does not employ the homogeneous property of the inner product. However, it is shown that a real vector space with a product satisfying properties of an inner product except the homogeneous property induces a metric but not a norm. It is remarkable to see that the metric induced on the real line by such a product has highly contrasting properties relative to the absolute value metric. In particular, such a product on the real line is given so that the induced metric is not complete and the set of rational numbers is not dense in the real line.