Thread: Google closing 10 of their services - including Ardvark

I do like what Google is doing these days. They killing the useless projects that never really took off. Maybe now they will focus on Google search and Google+ more after loosing a few projects.

Google continues to trim its offerings, announcing that 10 projects will either be discontinued or merged into other products. Aardvark, a Q&A social search startup acquired from former Googlers for $50 million in 2010, is the most noteworthy among the closings.

Also gone or repackaged are:

Continued at: http://searchenginewatch.com/article...uding-Aardvark

Larry Page is cleaning house it looks like.

I like all the service and all the tools of Google,I really interested to try it.

the tools of Google is just good .

Google+ is going to be a huge fail.

I think Google has been take a correct decision. There is no need of useless project. Now, Google Search and Google+ is more popular to most of the people. So they should take care off them.

They recently closed Buzz to. You are right they are closing all the useless application and focusing only on Google + and I think their tactic is working very well.

Google+ is a Just a awesome services of google.com . i made a page also that is so nice and spread my friends circle area.

Google is all following natural flow of the internet community. please try to understand what and why ? for any project.

It is not unreasonable for them to start projects and then kill them because they are not performing. You have to put many irons into the fire to feed the masses. But, once you decide on who is hungry for what then you can pull some and push others. It is a natural cycle of business. You have to try things out and decide what performs and what fails.

It is not unreasonable for them to start projects and then kill them because they are not performing. You have to put many irons into the fire to feed the masses. But, once you decide on who is hungry for what then you can pull some and push others. It is a natural cycle of business. You have to try things out and decide what performs and what fails.

Yes! This is really a great new for all Google users. Google always shows their best performance & thats why I love GOOGLE.

google can afford to try out new things that fail. if they work, then they can stick ads onto them!

Originally Posted by tommyboy

google can afford to try out new things that fail. if they work, then they can stick ads onto them!

True, this does seem to happen with them.

While they close all those, maby they will open a links checker like yahoo had. Lol, I know, good joke right?

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Google all functionality is good Google is a good search engine

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