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Google Killing Off Mini, Video, and iGoogle

Posted by Soulskill on from the bulldozing-an-old-playground dept.

New submitter Trashcan Romeo writes "Three years ago, it accounted for 20% of all visits to Google's home page. Two years ago, Lifehacker readers voted it the best start-page service. Today it was announced that iGoogle will be retired — or in the company's parlance, 'spring cleaned' — on November 1, 2013." Google Video is also getting the axe this summer. It hasn't accepted new videos since 2009, and all of the old ones will be migrated to YouTube. The company is also getting rid of Google Mini, Talk Chatback, and their Symbian search app.

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  1. Re:What exactly am I suppose to replace it with? by lehphyro · · Score: 5, Informative

    You may want to give Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/) a try.

  2. Re:Ruined my day by cis4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Slashdot widget on iGoogle is the only reason I come here. Here's to hoping someone will make a replacement.

  3. Re: iGoogle will be missed... maybe by ender- · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thirded. I switched away from my.yahoo.com when iGoogle first came out and I've been using it ever since. I've got it set up just perfectly as I like it. I'm going to be extremely disappointed if/when they retire iGoogle. :(

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  4. Re:ok so the best replacement...... by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Informative

    So I can replace iGoogle with netvibes, we've established that. I'd now like to know how to let google know how displeased I am about their decision to cancel iGoogle. Does anyone have a link I can use to rant at google? I looked around google's help pages for a little while, with no success :-(

    http://www.change.org/petitions/google-don-t-kill-igoogle#

  5. Nervous about email by Geeky · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's things like this that make me - and possibly small businesses - nervous about email and the other google apps products

    While it's unlikely they'd ever kill gmail, it makes it harder to make a case to bet the farm on google. Shame there's no really viable alternative to email with a half decent web interface (animated ads flickering in the corner of my eye annoy the hell out of me and I don't want to jump through ad-blocking hoops on every PC I ever use).

    So iGoogle might not be a big product, but it's visible enough (unlike maybe some of the smaller products they've killed) to make potential users pause.

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