October 15, 2011 / Google is closing
some of its products including Google Buzz, Code Search, Code Search
API, and Jaiku, saying “changing the world focusing on the future,
and honesty about the past.”
“We keen to create great products
that really change people’s lives, products they use two or three times a
day,” said Bradley Horowitz, Vice President, Product.
September, Google close dow Aardvark (which helped people answer each other’s question), Desktop
(in which users had instant access to their data, whether online or
offline), Fast Flip (which helped pioneer news content browsing and
reading experiences for the web and mobile devices), Google Maps API for
Flash (which provided ActionScript developers a way to integrate Google
Maps into their applications) among others.To be successful you need
real focus and thought—thought about what you have worked on and, just as necessary, what you don’t work on. It’s why we now decided to shut
down some products, and turn others into features of current products.
Code Search was designed to provide services to people search for open source code all over the web, will be close down along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.
In a coming weeks, Google will close down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+.
Now visitor would not be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout, according to the search giant.
Jaiku, a product Google acquired in 2007 that lets users send updates to friends, will shut down on January 15, 2012.
We’ll be working to enable users to export their data from Jaiku,” Google said.
Some years ago, Google enabled people to interact socially on iGoogle. With its new focus on Google+, iGoogle’s social features will be removed on January 15, 2012.
iGoogle itself, and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are.
The University Research Program for Google Search, which provides API access to Google’s search results for a small number of approved academic researchers, will shut down on January 15, 2012.
In addition, later today the Google Labs site will shut down, and as previously announced, Boutiques.com and the former Like.com websites will be replaced by Google Product Search.
Horowitz said “We learned a lot from products like Buzz, and are putting that learning to work every day in our vision for products like Google+. Our users expect great things from us; today’s announcements let us focusing even more on giving them something truly awesome,”.
Code Search was designed to provide services to people search for open source code all over the web, will be close down along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.
In a coming weeks, Google will close down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+.
Now visitor would not be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout, according to the search giant.
Jaiku, a product Google acquired in 2007 that lets users send updates to friends, will shut down on January 15, 2012.
We’ll be working to enable users to export their data from Jaiku,” Google said.
Some years ago, Google enabled people to interact socially on iGoogle. With its new focus on Google+, iGoogle’s social features will be removed on January 15, 2012.
iGoogle itself, and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are.
The University Research Program for Google Search, which provides API access to Google’s search results for a small number of approved academic researchers, will shut down on January 15, 2012.
In addition, later today the Google Labs site will shut down, and as previously announced, Boutiques.com and the former Like.com websites will be replaced by Google Product Search.
Horowitz said “We learned a lot from products like Buzz, and are putting that learning to work every day in our vision for products like Google+. Our users expect great things from us; today’s announcements let us focusing even more on giving them something truly awesome,”.
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