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Google Terminates Six Services

Mixed by Sylvain Munaut (Chief Technology Officer @ Whatever) in Trends, Web apps

28 January
An article originally posted on Information Week

“The ax fell on Wednesday at Google (NSDQ: GOOG), not just for some of the company’s employees but for six of its services, too.
In addition to Google’s announcements about the elimination of 100 recruiting positions and the shutdown of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden, the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku. It also said it’s discontinuing the ability to upload videos to Google Video.”

Read the full article at www.informationweek.com

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In my opinion…

It’s always sad when good services come to an end. At least Google tries to mitigate the negative effects. Sometimes we forget the risk associated with externally hosted services, especially free ones that provide no guarantees. That doesn’t mean commercial services are always reliable either, some of us might remember the “TheLinkup” huge data loss no so long ago …

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