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Google Shutdowns Google Video, iGoogle, Google Mini & More

Since Larry Page took over as Google’s CEO, the company is continuing its shutdown process of not so actively used products as part of Spring cleanup. Today, the company announced that it is going to shutdown few more products including Google Video, iGoogle, Google Mini and more combining to more than 30 products.

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In an official blog post, Google posted that it is going to close Google Mini, Google Talk Chatback, Google Video, iGoogle, Symbian Search App. This is the new list of closure from the giant which add to the following that killed off in recent months –

Google Bookmarks Lists, Google Friend Connect, Google Gears, Google Search Timeline, Google Wave, Knol, Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C), Aardvark, Desktop, Fast Flip, Google Maps API for Flash, Google Pack, Google Web Security, Image Labeler, Notebook, Sidewiki, Subscribed Links,Google Flu Vaccine Finder, Google Related, Google Sync for BlackBerry, mobile web app for Google Talk, One Pass, Patent Search, Picasa for Linux, Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and Picasa Web Albums Plugin for iPhoto, and all Slide products. [via]

Do you miss any of the above services?

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3 responses to “Google Shutdowns Google Video, iGoogle, Google Mini & More”

  1. jon Avatar
    jon

    and any one of those services could be what makes google better then the rest…stupid decisions.

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    Mike Perham

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  3. azalira Avatar
    azalira

    UPDATE
    It’s September 1st (in Australia 🙂 AND the forum of iGoogle
    fan complaints is not only still going, but it’s GROWING! There have
    been thousands of posts and it seems that more people are finding the
    forum every day now and adding to the chorus.

    The major theme
    is that if Google cares so little about iGoogle users, (most of whom
    won’t need or use the suggested other solutions and ‘Apps’) – then
    masses of angry iGoogle users are and will continue to leave ALL iGoogle
    products as iGoogle was our link and launchpad. I for one am waiting
    in hope that with all of the bad vibes about this perhaps Google will
    change and shy away from such a bad business decision and let us keep
    iGoogle. (hell I’d even pay a bit to keep it) However if or when it
    goes I GO TOO!

    I am guessing as well that for everyone who finds the forum, there are hundreds of thousands who feel the
    same
    way and don’t have the time or inclination to use forums but who WILL
    also leave Google. This model of trialing products for a few years and
    get us to love them and closing them down or trying to force people into
    using them in predetermined ways that make you use other products you
    don’t like. (such as Chrome) Really smacks of old style MS coercion

    which is why so many of us stopped using their products as well.

    A sad day for a company who promised:
    “Since
    the beginning, we’ve focused on providing the best user experience
    possible. Whether we’re designing a new Internet browser or a new tweak
    to the look of the homepage, we take great care to ensure that they will
    ultimately serve you, rather than our own internal goal or bottom line.”

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