A Google representative on the Google Maps Help Group announced that Google has discontinued the Click to Call service that was launched last November.
I’m afraid it’s not broken - this feature was a long-running
experiment, and in the end it was decided to discontinue it.
There are however lots of other features we’re adding to maps in the
hope of making it even more useful.
[via DownloadSquad]
Bam, bam, Google killed another product - Google Related Links that was launched in April 2006. Google Blogoscoped reports, quoting Google:
As of April 30, 2007, we ceased providing the related links service. Related Links was one of many Google Labs products that we had developed experimentally as part of our commitment to ongoing innovation.
Seriously, money talks, people would rather use AdSense instead.
On Google SOAP Search API’s home page, Google writes,
As of December 5, 2006, we are no longer actively supporting the SOAP Search API. We encourage you to use the AJAX Search API instead.
The API was launched in April 2002, so does Google Answers(dead). Google News and Google Sets were launched in 2002, are they going to be the next ones?
Google will continue to keep the documentation online, for developers who are already using the SOAP Search API. [via Google Blogoscoped]
Google yesterday announced that they are shutting down one of their earliest service - Google Answers. Launched in April 2002 with a small 4-person team and went out of Beta in May 2003, Google Answers was one of the very first project Google worked on.
Google Answers was just an “great experiment”, as how Google called it. Anyways, Google will stop accepting new question later this week, and will stop accepting new Answers to questions by the end of the year. Questions and Answers will be available to browser online however.
Although Google didn’t say what’s the cause to shutting it down, but here’s probably the answer from Google Answers: What has happened to Answers?(via Google OS)
It’s really sad to see Google Answers being shut down. Unlike Google X, Answers has been around for years, even though I don’t use it at all. Bye, Google Answers.
