Google Kills Jaiku, Dodgeball, Catalog Search, Notebook, Mashup Editor

[mandy]

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 Google Catalog Search, Google Notebook, Dodgeball, the microblogging service Jaiku and the Google Mashup Editor.
Google’s written officially about the closures and changes in these posts:

• Turning Down Uploads at Google Video
  
• Farewell, Google Catalog Search
  
• Stopping development on Google Notebook
  
• Changes for Jaiku and Farewell to Dodgeball and Mashup Editor
  

   
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full article: http://searchengineland.com/google-ends-...aiku-16166