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Google Kills Off Several Products
Just recently, Google’s 3D world Lively was shut down. Now Google announced they’re canceling a couple of other products or product features. These are: Mobile service Dodgeball . “We have decided to discontinue Dodgeball.com in the next couple of months, after which this ...
Official Google Notebook Blog: Stopping development on Google Notebook
googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com — Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:30 PM Posted by Raj Krishnan, Product Manager, Google Notebook At Google, we're... constantly working to innovate and improve our products so people can easily find and manage information. At times though, we have to decide ... (more) Official Google Notebook Blog: Stopping development on ...
Official Google Video Blog: Turning Down Uploads at Google Video
googlevideo.blogspot.com — In a few months, we will discontinue support for uploads to Google Video. Don't worry, we're not... removing any content hosted on Google Video -- this just means you will no longer be able to upload new content to the service. We've always maintained ... (more) Official Google Video Blog: Turning Down Uploads at ...
Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku
searchengineland.com — Google’s announced they’re closing or ceasing development of a variety of products as part of an already... continuing move to keep efforts focused on other products with greater usage. These include an end to video uploads to Google Video , closure of ... (more) Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, ...
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Google ditches six web services
Obsessable News Feed — ... [pcworld.com] Google Kills Off Several Products [blogoscoped.com] ...

Google Cutting More than Jobs–Shuttering Five Products
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... Mobile social network Dodgeball.com, designed to let users share their locations via text message, will be discontinued “in the next couple months.” Google Blogoscoped notes that “The original founders of this Google-acquired company already left a while ago in frustration due to Google allegedly not evolving their product.” ...

Google Q4 earnings preview
BloggingStocks — ... ) will be reporting its Q4 numbers tomorrow afternoon once the market closes. With its stock well off its $700+ peak, PC sales slowing, and Google ditching low-performing products, all eyes will be on the search leader. Just how much are customers not clicking on Google-supplied advertising? We're about to find out. ...

Google Q4 earnings preview
BloggingStocks — ... ) will be reporting its Q4 numbers tomorrow afternoon once the market closes. With its stock well off its $700+ peak, PC sales slowing, and Google ditching low-performing products, all eyes will be on the search leader. Just how much are customers not clicking on Google-supplied advertising? We're about to find out. ...

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