Google is shutting down several unpopular services
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Google will either shutting down or stopping support several free Web-based services as it saving its resources.
The services could be Google Video, Google Notebook, Catalog Search, and Jaiku etc.
Google within a few months will stop letting users upload to Google Video, a free service launched in 2006. Later that year, Google bought YouTube, which has become the company’s dominant video property. Clips will not be removed from Video & the service will be more focused on search.
Google is nixing Catalog Search, a service that lets people see & search the full text of catalogs that had been scanned using optical character recognition technology. Google said the project helped it refine how it can make the full text of books available online, but overall the service wasn’t very popular, wrote Punit Soni, a product manager.
The company will also stop working on Google Notebook, although it’ll keep the service running for registered users. Notebook is an online organizational tool where people can create notes & share, among other features.
The changes come as Google said on Wednesday it’ll lay off 100 job recruiters. The company also plans to close engineering offices in Texas, Norway and Sweden, moving 70 engineers to other offices to better coordinate development efforts, it said. Now it’s showing economic slowdown everywhere.
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