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Neat! Maybe you could add a line or two to describe what each product was? For example I'd never heard about Sidewiki, Google Jaiku or Google Catalogs. It seems
by m12k 8y ago
Neat! Maybe you could add a line or two to describe what each product was? For example I'd never heard about Sidewiki, Google Jaiku or Google Catalogs. It seems fitting that a tombstone would mention not just the date of death but also a bit about who they were and what they did.
- DanSmooth 8y agoAnd if the postings are still online perhaps link to the official "obituaries".
- codyogden 8y agohttps://killedbygoogle.com https://killedbygoogle.com <- Mini-obits galore.
- joshuamorton 8y agoThis list annoys me. Reading it, some of those still exist, many we're just folded into other services, and a couple appear to have been 20% projects that were never Google's to kill.
- xtracto 8y agoYou might enjoy this other site that has the original google graveyard: https://www.wordstream.com/articles/retired-google-projects https://www.wordstream.com/articles/retired-google-projects
- ehsankia 8y ago+1 It's worth noting that even as someone who frequents tech and hackernews frequently, I still didn't know what half the stuff on there was. Things like Dodgeball, Jaiku, Gears, Fast Flip, Urchin or Aardvark. Never even heard these names before.