Google executives decided to close the user access to multiple services with respect to a popular search engine. Adapted to the closure of services, mostly try to compete with existing social networks.
Google has officially announced plans to close a number of its services, including quite popular. This was announced by the company's blog Google Vice President of Product Bradley Horowitz (Bradley Horowitz).
So, after several weeks of Internet giant closes its once- ambitious service Google Buzz. The service was launched in February last year. It is a tool with elements of social networking and microblogging, allowing to communicate on the Internet without leaving your Gmail mailbox. Members receive a lot of Google Buzz posts, monitor status updates, posts, tweets. Service analyzes the existing mail messages and chat and on this basis creates a list of contacts that might be of interest to the user.
with. Google Buzz. will be closed and the API of the service. According to Horowitz, the company intends instead to focus on its new social network Google. After closing the users will not be able to create new content in this service, but will be able to view the existing through your profile on Google.
Will be closed on 15 January 2012. service Jaiku, which the company acquired in 2007. Jaiku had a look at the Google platform for microblogging, similar to Twitter. Soon, developers should provide users of the service the ability to export your data from Jaiku.
In addition, Google plans to close several years ago, running social service opportunities iGoogle. Instead, the company offers its services to users to use new social network. Google. Social opportunities are also closed iGoogle January 15 next year.
Planned closure of the service Code Search, a search engine that is designed to search for open source on the web, as well as programs University Research Program for Google Search - within it access to the API search results Google provides a small number of approved researchers.
In addition, the company recently closed all its website platform Google Labs, and bought it before the resources Boutiques. com and Like. com has replaced its search engine Google Product Search.
... To succeed, we must be able to focus and think - think about a lot of work and, last but not least, on what does not work. That is why we recently decided to close some of its products, while others turn a function of existing services ... Google.
Anton Truhanov.
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