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Google Confirms Shut Down of Schemer

Posted by samzenpus on from the end-of-the-line dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has confirmed it is shutting down its goal sharing service Schemer. The company says Schemer's last day will be February 7, after which all data will be permanently deleted. The iOS app has already been pulled from Apple's App Store while the Android app on Google Play hasn't been updated since October 2012."

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  1. Schemer? by hritcu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google what?

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  2. Google. An Advertising Company. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google what now?

    You'd think for a company like GOOGLE, they'd, you know, ADVERTISE their products.
    I've literally never heard of this at all and I could name everything that was on Google Labs and the More page that lists "all" their services. (which are pretty damn hidden too, no wonder nobody bloody used them!)
    ADVERTISE YOUR SHIT, GOOGLE.

  3. Re: Live by the cloud, die by the cloud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The loss of Google Scholar would be truly devastating. No one is even approaching it's usability (I'm talking to you EBSCOHost and the like). Although, considering Google's recent history of aggressively closing down things that aren't profitable it may be inevitable. Fingers crossed that this won't happen.

  4. Re:Here we go again... by Ash+Vince · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Raises hand.

    My last company decided to Googleize just as I was leaving. The VeeP who set it in motion had a list of services he wanted. Thing is, we already provided nearly everything he wanted and none of the things he wanted were unique to Google's offerings. Even back then, there was a pretty significant list of services that Google had shut down and it was clear that it would be risky to heavily integrate anything beyond docs and email into our business practices. I have no idea how it turned out because my last day was in the middle of the transition.

    Generally though, most companies struggle to compete with the reliability of Google offerings.

    Also, they only seem to shut down side projects that I only hear about when they announce shutting them down. Call me when they shut down maps, gmail, search or android.

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  5. Re:Here we go again... by fast+turtle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WTF is Schemer? Even the god damn article doesn't tell me and if I don't know WTF it is, how does anyone else? Just another effen Google tool that nobody was told about being shut down because nobody used it. Chicken and Egg Issue. You don't tell folks about it so nobody fucking uses it. Shut it down.

    Google could save lots of time/effort/PR by simply not starting these many apps/tools that they keep shutting down because they're not telling anyone about them.

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