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Slide - Only One Product Left | 2011-08-25

After one year of acquisition, Google announced to shut-down all but one Slide products on Aug 25th, 2011.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/25/slide-google-bloodbath/ by fyfywong Oct 22

We wanted to give you all advance notice that in the coming months, a number of Slide's products and applications will be retired. This includes Slide's products such as Slideshow and SuperPoke! Pets, as well as more recent products such as Photovine, Video Inbox and Pool Party. We created products with the goal of providing a fun way for people to connect, communicate and share. While we are incredibly grateful to our users and for all of the wonderful feedback over the years, many of these products are no longer as active or haven't caught on as we originally hoped. Most importantly, we wanted to take this opportunity to reassure you that we're committed to helping our users preserve their data as easily as possible.

Update on Slide's products and our commitment to our users

Google Pack | 2011-09-02

Aardvark | 2011-09-02

Google bought Aardvark for $50 million on February, 2010.
Shut down on September 2nd, 2011

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/google-kills-aardvark/ by fyfywong Oct 14

Google Desktop | 2011-09-14

Launch in 2004. As of September 14, 2011, Google Desktop will no longer be available for download, and existing installations will not be updated to include new features or fixes.

via http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-desktop-update.html by fyfywong Oct 22

Google Desktop Update

In 2004, Google launched Google Desktop, a program designed to make it easy for users to search their own PCs for emails, files, music, photos, Web pages and more. Desktop has been used by tens of millions of people and we’ve been humbled by its usage and great user feedback. However, over the past seven years we’ve also witnessed some big changes in how users store and access their own data, with many moving to web-based applications.

We launched Google PowerMeter as a free energy monitoring tool to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information. PowerMeter included key features like visualizations of your energy usage, the ability share information with others, and personalized recommendations to save energy. We partnered with device manufacturers and utilities around the world.

PowerMeter | 2011-09-16

Shut down on September 16, 2011

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-health-and-google.html by fyfywong Oct 14

Google Labs | 2011-10-15

Last week we explained that we’re prioritizing our product efforts. As part of that process, we’ve decided to wind down Google Labs. While we’ve learned a huge amount by launching very early prototypes in Labs, we believe that greater focus is crucial if we’re to make the most of the extraordinary opportunities ahead. In many cases, this will mean ending Labs experiments—in others we’ll incorporate Labs products and technologies into different product areas. And many of the Labs products that are Android apps today will continue to be available on Android Market .

More wood behind fewer arrows - googlelabs.com shut down announcement

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-wood-behind-fewer-arrows.html

Buzz | 2011-11-14

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1698228?hl=en

We've retired Google Buzz. You won't be able to create any new posts, but your existing content will remain accessible in three ways: You can view it on your Google Profile You can download it using Google Takeout You can access it using Google Dashboard Thank you for using Google Buzz.

Will be shut down In a few weeks along with Buzz API. You can still view the existing content on your Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-sweep.html by fyfywong Oct 14

Buzz API | 2011-11-14

Will be shut down In a few weeks along with Buzz. You can still view the existing content could on your Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-sweep.html 15 october by fyfywong Oct 14

We aspire to build great products that really change people’s lives, products they use two or three times a day. To succeed you need real focus and thought—thought about what you work on and, just as important, what you don’t work on. It’s why we recently decided to shut down some products , and turn others into features of existing products. Here’s the latest update on what’s happening:

A fall sweep

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-sweep.html

Last February, we let you know we were shifting our focus from Gears to HTML5. Over the last year or so, we’ve been working closely with other browser vendors and standards bodies to help define and standardize HTML5 features across browsers, and we’ve worked hard to improve these HTML5 capabilities in Chrome: We implemented support for application caches , which are a great replacement for Gears’ offline features. App caches are already being used by web apps like the NYTimes app in the Chrome Web Store. There is also full-featured debugging support for application caches in Chrome’s developer tools.

http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/stopping-gears.html

Gears | 2011-12-01

On December 1, 2011, Gears-based Gmail and Calendar offline will stop working across all browsers, and later in December Gears will no longer be available for download.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/more-spring-cleaning-out-of-season.html by fyfywong Nov 24

More spring cleaning out of season

Sidewiki | 2011-12-05

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html

Technology improves, people’s needs change, some bets pay off and others don’t. So, as Larry previewed on our last earnings call , today we’re having a fall spring-clean at Google. Over the next few months we’ll be shutting down a number of products and merging others into existing products as features.