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November 23, 2011 03:04 am GMT
Since Google CEO Larry Page took the helm this past spring, one of the company's most visible initiatives has been to trim and shut down its products that haven't taken off. These have included Aardvark, Google Desktop, Fast Flip, Code Search, Buzz, Jaiku, and even Google Labs and today, it's announcing a new batch of products that will be shut down in the coming months.Among the casualties (some of which had previously been announced): Google's Wikipedia challenger, Google Knol, Google Friend Connect (which is being supplanted by Google+), and Google Wave which Google ended development on a year ago and will soon close down entirely.Knol, in particular, comes as something of a surprise to me because I figured Google had already shut it down. The site first launched back in 2008 to much fanfare, as Google introduced a potential Wikipedia challenger that would allow article contributors to monetize their content (the idea being that if you wrote content worth reading, you could make some money off of it).
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Google Announces Plans To Shutter Knol, Friend Connect, Wave, And More
Since Google CEO Larry Page took the helm this past spring, one of the company's most visible initiatives has been to trim and shut down its products that haven't taken off. These have included Aardvark, Google Desktop, Fast Flip, Code Search, Buzz, Jaiku, and even Google Labs and today, it's announcing a new batch of products that will be shut down in the coming months.Among the casualties (some of which had previously been announced): Google's Wikipedia challenger, Google Knol, Google Friend Connect (which is being supplanted by Google+), and Google Wave which Google ended development on a year ago and will soon close down entirely.Knol, in particular, comes as something of a surprise to me because I figured Google had already shut it down. The site first launched back in 2008 to much fanfare, as Google introduced a potential Wikipedia challenger that would allow article contributors to monetize their content (the idea being that if you wrote content worth reading, you could make some money off of it).Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/-0LHPSwc71U/
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