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Wednesday evening, Google posted on several of their official blogs announcements informing that the company was terminating, stopping development on or restricting access to six services that had not lived up to the search giant’s expectations.
Consequently, some months from now, Google Video is scheduled to stop allowing user uploads, which does not come as a surprising decision, since YouTube has been offering people that option beginning 2006, when it was purchased by Google.
Back in 2007, the company terminated users’ access to paid videos on the aforementioned app, while it has recently added a video upload feature to the Picasa Web Albums service.
Another application that Google is killing is Google Catalog Search, which was originally released as a demo for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that came to be turned into Google Book Search.
Google Notebook, a service that seems to be losing its developers, will continue to function, still the company said on its blog that users should consider other applications such as SearchWiki, Google Docs and Google Bookmarks.
The company will be also pulling the plug on Dodgeball, which it purchased in 2005, during the following months, while Google’s Mashup Editor is set for termination, as well.
As for Jaiku, which Google acquired in October 2007, it will remain on the map with support from a volunteer team comprising company employees, but the main product is scheduled to be ported to the Google App Engine and afterwards released as an open source service.
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