Google To Shut Down 10 Products

Google announced yesterday that it is closing a number of its current products and merging others into similar services. Many of them will continue to be available in the near future to facilitate the transition. The list of affected services includes Aardvark, Desktop, Fast Flip, Maps API for Flash, Google Pack, Google Web Security, Image Labeler, Notebook, Sidewiki, and Subscriber Links. Google's Alan Eustace wrote. "This will make things much simpler for our users, improving the overall Google experience. It will also mean we can devote more resources to high impact products—the ones that improve the lives of billions of people. All the Googlers working on these projects will be moved over to higher-impact products. As for our users, we’ll communicate directly with them as we make these changes, giving sufficient time to make the transition and enabling them to take their data with them." The link contains brief descriptions of how each service is getting phased out.

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Oh fuck off.

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All i can say is it is good that i didnt rely on any of those services. This tells me not to rely on google for any services. for, it is no dissimilar from microsoft shutting bcentral into the face of their ecommerce clients, or dropping silverlight or any other similar private corporate profit move.

all i can conclude is relying on corporations for services is not a good thing, because eventually what you are using gets either shut down, or screwed with other services for profit reasons, causing distress to you.

and no, i dont at all buy the 'will make it easier for our customers' bit at all. it never ends up that way. saying that is nothing more than an attempt to soothe the public.