#1 Knol
Knols were authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. It was built to encourage experts to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone. But many saw knol as Google’s attempt to compete with Wikipedia and it was soon phased out in favour of Annotum. All the content was deleted by October 2012.
#2 Google Health
Google health service allowed users to keep their health records in a centralized location - either manually or by logging into their accounts at partnered health services providers. The company wanted ‘to create a service that would give people access to their personal health and wellness information’. But the service was
shut down in early 2013.
#3 Google Wallet
Google Wallet was an innovative technology that clubbed online money transactions via credit cards with the user’s Smartphone. Here the Smartphone played the role of being a wallet. This was a really cool idea and was on the verge of trendsetting the future but unfortunately was implemented too soon for the masses to grasp, and the fear of its wrong implications led to people shunning it and the idea was soon dropped by Google.
#4 Dodgeball
Dodgeball was a location-based social networking service that allowed users to communicate and broadcast their location to other users via text message. In January 2009 Google executive Vic Gundotra announced in
Google Code Blog that they would discontinue it in the next couple of months. This service was replaced by Google Latitude.
#5 Google Notebook
Google Notebook was an application that allowed user to browse, clip, and organize information anywhere from the web on to a single online location that can be accessible from any computer. This browser-based tool allowed users to share information with others for collaboration and could also make the notebook public. Google started shifting the notebook data to Google docs in November 2011 and by July 2012 Notebook was shut down. Now it is replaced by Google Docs.
#6 iGoogle
iGoogle was a personalized homepage where a user could customize the Google homepage with ‘Gadgets’ such as new feed, Google Chat, countdown timer, daily literary quote, and games. The Company felt that the need for a customizable homepage is no longer required. “With modern apps that run on platforms like
Chrome and Android, the need for something like iGoogle has eroded over time,” announced the company. iGoogle has retired on November 1, 2013.
#7 Picnik
Picnik was an online photo editing service acquired by in 2010. For several months, it was integrated as a part of Picasa web albums to provide users more options in adding photo effects while editing images
through Picasa platform. Although this was a really good service in January 2012, Picnik announced that it would be closing on April 19, 2012. Google has currently added similar tools and functionalities to Google+ and is called as the Creative Kit.
#8 Google Reader
Google Reader, an RSS/Atom feed aggregator was developed by Chris Wetherell, a Google engineer and was launched through Google Labs. It was launched in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. Initially this project had a loyal number of users
but slowly the usage declined and thus was inevitably closed in July 2013.
Knols were authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. It was built to encourage experts to contribute their knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone. But many saw knol as Google’s attempt to compete with Wikipedia and it was soon phased out in favour of Annotum. All the content was deleted by October 2012.#2 Google Health
Google health service allowed users to keep their health records in a centralized location - either manually or by logging into their accounts at partnered health services providers. The company wanted ‘to create a service that would give people access to their personal health and wellness information’. But the service wasshut down in early 2013.
#3 Google Wallet
Google Wallet was an innovative technology that clubbed online money transactions via credit cards with the user’s Smartphone. Here the Smartphone played the role of being a wallet. This was a really cool idea and was on the verge of trendsetting the future but unfortunately was implemented too soon for the masses to grasp, and the fear of its wrong implications led to people shunning it and the idea was soon dropped by Google.#4 Dodgeball
Dodgeball was a location-based social networking service that allowed users to communicate and broadcast their location to other users via text message. In January 2009 Google executive Vic Gundotra announced in Google Code Blog that they would discontinue it in the next couple of months. This service was replaced by Google Latitude.
#5 Google Notebook
Google Notebook was an application that allowed user to browse, clip, and organize information anywhere from the web on to a single online location that can be accessible from any computer. This browser-based tool allowed users to share information with others for collaboration and could also make the notebook public. Google started shifting the notebook data to Google docs in November 2011 and by July 2012 Notebook was shut down. Now it is replaced by Google Docs.#6 iGoogle
iGoogle was a personalized homepage where a user could customize the Google homepage with ‘Gadgets’ such as new feed, Google Chat, countdown timer, daily literary quote, and games. The Company felt that the need for a customizable homepage is no longer required. “With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for something like iGoogle has eroded over time,” announced the company. iGoogle has retired on November 1, 2013.
#7 Picnik
Picnik was an online photo editing service acquired by in 2010. For several months, it was integrated as a part of Picasa web albums to provide users more options in adding photo effects while editing images through Picasa platform. Although this was a really good service in January 2012, Picnik announced that it would be closing on April 19, 2012. Google has currently added similar tools and functionalities to Google+ and is called as the Creative Kit.
#8 Google Reader
Google Reader, an RSS/Atom feed aggregator was developed by Chris Wetherell, a Google engineer and was launched through Google Labs. It was launched in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. Initially this project had a loyal number of usersbut slowly the usage declined and thus was inevitably closed in July 2013.
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