During the more than 23 years of operation, the company was responsible for launching several products with a wide variety of functions. The discontinuity of some of them occurs naturally due to the need for reformulation and the advancement of technology. The company has a website called “Google Cemetery”, which is where around 166 products and services that have been discontinued since 2006 are stored.
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Some of them, despite having been launched a long time ago, are still on the market because of their functionality and tradition, as is the case of Gmail and Maps. On the other hand, some others that were successful in the past are currently unavailable to the general public. Thanks to technological advances, certain things end up becoming obsolete, so they have been discontinued.
In Google's cemetery, it is possible to find out the reason for withdrawing such a product from the market, in addition to other information, such as its lifespan on the market and its descriptions.
Discover some of the products that have been discontinued by Google
- orkut
One that was quite successful during the 2000s was the social network Orkut. For Brazilians, she was the pioneer. To this day, many people ask for its return, although it seems like a “dream” almost impossible to fulfill. Unfortunately, Orkut only lasted exactly ten years. It ended in 2014 and left a legacy that lasts until today.
- stadia
Recently, Google announced that the cloud gaming service will go offline in January 2023. The statement seems not to have surprised most gamer fans. The service's lifespan on the market was really surprising, as it was only three in the air.
- picasa
Picasa was a digital photo editing program. Its lifetime was also 14 years, as it started in 2002 and ended in 2016.
“Google stated that the main reason for The retirement from Picasa é what he wanted to focus its efforts entirely on a single service multiplataform of pictures, at the Photos”, explained the website about the end of the program.
Killed by Google
O Killed by Google works similarly to Google Cemetery, but with greater detail and information. On this site, 144 discontinued products are listed. They are subdivided into categories such as services, applications, hardware, among others.
Both Google Cemetery and Killed by Google claim that the number of discontinued products is much higher than the that are currently on the market, but that there are some that could still be working today, as is the case with Reader.
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