Google To Kill 6 Of Its Failed Projects

[Guest Reimar]

Google to kill 6 of its failed projects

Google has decided to terminate several products that weren't up to the Google's standards or now redundant.

Google Video

Google Catalog Search

Google Notebook

Dodgeball

Jaiku

Google Mashup Editor

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.

Full story HERE

[londonthai]

googlepages are next, ahame, because users put a lot of work into those applications

[webfact]

googlepages are next, ahame, because users put a lot of work into those applications

indeed -

quote from Google Page Creator Web site

Google Page Creator is no longer accepting new sign-ups.

We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we have shifted our focus to developing Google Sites, which offers many of the capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like site-level navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see and edit your site, and rich embeddings like calendars, videos, and Google docs.

If you are currently a Page Creator user, you can continue to use Page Creator and your pages will automatically be transitioned to Google Sites later this year. We are committed to making this transition as smooth and easy as possible, and we will post more details as we get closer to the transition time. You can also manually move your web pages from Page Creator to Google Sites or other service providers at any time."