Google has decided to terminate several products that weren't up to the Google's standards or now redundant.In a few months, support for uploads to Google Video will be discontinued and YouTube and Picasa Web Albums will be left to handle the video uploads.
In 2001, Google Catalog Search was launched as a demonstration of OCR technology and lead to Google's Book Search which hasn't been as popular as some of Google's other products. Catalog search will be given a farewell on 15th January 2009.
Starting next week, Google plans to stop active development on Google Notebook, but will continue to maintain the service for those who've already signed up via the web interface here. The official Google notebook blog also provides information about other products which offer Notebook's functionalities.
Dodgeball, the mobile social network acquired by Google that lets users share their location with friends via text message is also being shutdown in the next couple of months as it is getting replaced by other popular mobile social networks like twitter.
Once Jaiku is migrated to Google App Engine ,a new Jaiku Engine project will be released on Google Code under the Apache License which will act as an open source microblogging platform .Development will halt and a group of Google volunteers will take care of the existing service.
The Google Mashup Editor which is currently in limited private beta, shutdown in 6 months in favour of the more powerful App Engine infrastructure.
Other Google products joining this long list to be terminated are:
- Knol - Google's Wikipedia competitor,
- Grand Central - an advanced telecom service and
- Google Base - an online database
just because it isnt the youtube they wanted it to be means its "not up to their standards" and they should give up on the project? :/
Yeah, but Google Video has the advantage of being able to upload videos longer than 10 minutes.
Maybe google will increase the limit at some point on YouTube then. If it can be done on Google Video, then it can be done YouTube.
There's stuff on YouTube that's longer than 10 minutes.
i believe you need a director account or something, but really do you want to hear why someone thinks my chemical romance is the best band ever for over 10mins?
That's because those people changed to a Director account before 2008. Now, you don't get anything.
I'll miss Google Notebook, but it'll be easily replaced with Evernote. And I don't see them killing Grand Central.
Google Notebook was nice, but at least there's better alternatives like OneNote, Evernote, and Live Thumbtack.
Anyone else know of an alternative to Grandcentral?
"Other blogs (TechCrunch and Center Networks) are calling Grand Central and Knol as the next projects to join Google's scrap bin. I can see Knol getting the ax--there's no buzz around it. I'd add Google Base to the list of likely casualities. But I don't think it makes sense to kill Grand Central. "
And the 2 quotes from TechCrunch and Center Networks is
"And what about Grand Central - the advanced telecom service that has a devout fan base, but still hasn't been released to the general public?"
So... I am assuming Neowin has some inside source that officially put them on the list that no one else has... apparently.. lol
"I am wondering if GrandCentral will be next to go. There has been basically no activity on the service since Google took over and I've noticed several technical issues that have seemed to go unresolved. They haven't opened the service to the public and they removed all invites as well. I really hope GrandCentral isn't next - it's a great service that has potential in the telephony market. (if it does close, I want the domain name!
nice one
Also exist Maxthon browser and ie7 plus.
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Google are hopeing Android will save Google Talk.
I don't particularly see how it will. I'm sure the competition will just release clients and then most users will have no real need to use Google Talk unless they were previously. Given the open nature it wouldn't shock me if MS or other companies tried to make exclusive deals to make windows live apps the default one even on Android for cases where they couldn't get them using Windows Mobile.
Yes, the chat client in GMail is Google Talk... it is also included in Google Desktop.
Like someone said, what about Google Talk? That thing sucks in comparison to so many other programs. They did a good job though, too many projects in the stagnant beta stage.
Lol at the Chrome comment! Hahaha!
I use it all the time to save small chunks of information
I use it all the time to save small chunks of information
Same here, I have just added a number of bookmarks.
It seems it is normal for Google to terminate some of the services, as I can see that some of them are related to mobile phone services, and I guess some of them have duplicated functions.
Some of the services are going to be killed due to low popularity, say Knol, everyone know Wikipedia, but I wonder how many people know Knol, and even how many people know Knol is the unit of knowledge (defined by Google).
its IM program mate
It still provides the best results by far.
Garnett
Then instead they would be axing a CEO or whoever made that decision.
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