Google killing Jaiku, Dodgeball, Notebook, other projects
In a series of separate posts on various official Google blogs Wednesday evening, the company announced that it is terminating, stopping development on, or restricting access to six products that clearly haven’t been adding much to the Google brand or bottom line lately.
The clock started ticking on Google Video when it bought YouTube in 2006. Starting, “in a few months,” Google Video will no longer allow user uploads. Google Catalog Search is getting the ax. Google Notebook is losing its developers. Dodgeball, acquired by Google in 2005, will be shut down “in the next couple of months.” Google’s Mashup Editor, which never made it out of private beta, will be terminated, “in favor of the more powerful App Engine.” Jaiku, as it is today, may live on with support from a “volunteer team” of Google employees, but the main product is getting ported to the Google App Engine, and will be release as open source. Other blogs are calling Grand Central and Knol as the next projects to join Google’s scrap bin.
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