It is well known that there are infinity of products from Google that we routinely integrate into our online lives. Google itself has been concerned over the years to offer these services with the aim of optimize the digital experience of all users.
The bad thing is that some of them – predicting a promising future – stayed halfway and now lie helplessly in the of the company. Below we present the 10 most significant Google products that have been withdrawn from the market (and that you have also used).
1. Google+ (2011-2018)
with all the honors, this is one of the Google products that tops our list. was born in 2011 with a lot of energy and with the idea of competing with dignity against Facebook. It had a clean design and the truth is that it started very well, but soon it began to deflate because both users and companies did not feel identified or comfortable with the platform.
It was a social network that also did not have much interaction from third-party apps. In 2015 it already showed signs of a impending decline and finally, in October 2018, Google announced that the platform was going to be closed to consumers due to low usage and a software bug.
2. Goo.gl (2009-2018)
East popular Google service emerged in 2009 and was used to create shorter links than the original ones. Made very useful during the boom of the last decade; especially with the Twitter platform, which back then only allowed you to write messages of a maximum of 140 characters.
Since April 13, 2018, Goo.gl stopped accepting more users and in March 2019 the service to existing users was definitively suppressed, although after this date all the links will keep redirecting to his destiny. On the other hand, Google developed a tool that allows you to generate smart links that can redirect users to any location within an application.
3. GoogleTalk (2005-2017)
Among the Google products that reach the category of defunct, we would like to highlight the tool instant messaging Google Talk, which was very important at the time when Messenger reigned. It was released in 2005 and began to be preinstalled on Android two years later.
Before the arrival of WhatsApp, it was one of the few alternatives that existed to chat by mobile and we must remember that in its first versions it already had the option of group conversations, availability states or notifications. In 2017, Google decided to do without this service and replace it with .
4. Picasa (2002-2016)
One of Google’s products more veterans which saw its end in 2016. Picasa was a service that functioned as a photo album and photo editing tool. The company had acquired it in 2004 and offered it for free form available to all (freeware).
Picasa made it possible to locate and organize all the photos on our computer, as well as edit and add effects to photos and share them with friends via email. Google decided to terminate this tool to focus on google photosa service that offers more features and is compatible with both computers and mobile devices.
5. Google Reader (2005-2013)
Google’s RSS reader is one of the services that more have facilitated online browsing to users. It was a very simple tool that allowed redirecting all the news from the users’ favorite sites (blogs, websites, etc.) to the same place, thus preventing the user from wasting time browsing the Internet.
Google Reader was one of the RSS aggregators most used and was quite similar to the inbox of a normal electronic correct. Unfortunately, despite the loyalty of many Internet users, Google decided to eliminate this service because new users were not arriving and due to the new policy of the company to focus on fewer products.
6. Google Buzz (2010-2011)
Google Buzz was a social network of life very short that was integrated into Gmail for users of this email service. This platform had functionalities typical of the rrss: share status, photo and videos; chat with contacts, publish posts from the mobile, etc.).
Buzz was also integrated with Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader, Youtube, Blogger or Twitter and allowed content to be published in all these apps automatically but never hatched. The social network was replaced by Google+ , which inherited part of the services offered by Buzz. And it is unnecessary to repeat how the story of the heiress ended.
7.Orkut (2004-2014)
Orkut was a social network of Google -another one- that came to have million users all over the world, especially in and India. It was based on the source code of InCircle and it had the typical characteristics of a social platform, such as the option to create communities of people with common tastes or interests.
We are talking about another of Google’s products that has passed into a better life because Facebook, Youtube, Blogger and Google+ were passing over Without remedy. Faced with this scenario, Google decided to give it a dignified end and close the beach bar definitively.
8. Google Labs (2006-2011)
This application was the place where the new projects from Google that were on trial, prior to being released. In this way, users were informed of what developments the company had in hand in order to arouse their interest before putting the final versions on the market. Labs was liquidated in 2011.
9. Panorama (2005-2016)
Panoramio was a website created by two Spanish developers that allowed place photographs on a google map. As the user moved around the map, the favorite photos of each place were displayed. Despite being an interesting project, in September 2014 Google announced that it was going to close Panoramio in order to migrate it to Google Maps Views.
10. Google Spaces (2016-2017)
Another Google social platform with a very short tour. We are talking about an application that was used to create groups in which to share content on specific topics. Its tragic outcome came with the traditional spring cleaning from Google and because the company wanted to focus on other messaging projects.
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