Learn Jump Cleaning Inwards Summer
Technology creates tremendous opportunities to improve people’s lives. But to brand the most of them, nosotros need to focus—or nosotros cease upwards doing likewise much together with non having the touching on nosotros strive for. So final autumn nosotros started a spring clean, together with since together with hence we’ve shut or combined to a greater extent than than thirty products. Today we’re announcing a few to a greater extent than closures. Here’s a summary of the changes we’ll endure making:
Closing products e'er involves tough choices, but nosotros produce mean value really difficult most each conclusion together with its implications for our users. Streamlining our services enables us to focus on creating beautiful technology that volition improve people’s lives.
- The Google Mini has been an of import component of our Enterprise Search offering since it was foremost introduced inwards 2005. It’s had a proficient run, but get-go July 31 we’re discontinuing the production because its functionality tin endure ameliorate provided past times products similar Google Search Appliance, Google Site Search together with Google Commerce Search. We volition of course of teaching buy the farm on to furnish technical back upwards to Mini customers for the duration of their contracts, together with volition hit out to them shortly alongside to a greater extent than details.
- Google Talk Chatback allowed websites to embed a Google Talk widget hence that they could engage alongside their visitors. It’s straightaway outdated, hence we’re turning off Chatback together with encouraging websites to utilisation the Meebo bar.
- Google Video stopped taking uploads inwards May 2009. Later this summertime we’ll endure moving the remaining hosted content to YouTube. Google Video users convey until August twenty to migrate, delete or download their content. We’ll together with hence motion all remaining Google Video content to YouTube every bit individual videos that users tin access inwards the YouTube video manager. For to a greater extent than details, delight encounter our post on the YouTube blog.
- On Nov 1, 2013, iGoogle volition endure retired. We originally launched iGoogle inwards 2005 earlier anyone could fully imagine the ways that today's spider web together with mobile apps would pose personalized, real-time information at your fingertips. With modern apps that run on platforms similar Chrome together with Android, the need for iGoogle has eroded over time, hence we’ll endure winding it down. Users volition convey sixteen months to accommodate or export their data.
- We’ll presently endure retiring our Symbian Search App to focus our efforts on our mobile spider web search experience. We encourage yous to larn to www.google.com together with larn inwards your homepage or bookmark it. Switching from the app to the spider web sense volition enable users to brand the most of the web-wide improvements nosotros brand for search all the time.
Closing products e'er involves tough choices, but nosotros produce mean value really difficult most each conclusion together with its implications for our users. Streamlining our services enables us to focus on creating beautiful technology that volition improve people’s lives.