Google Notebook
Google Notebook was a free online application offered by
Google that allowed users to save and organize clips of information while
conducting research online. The browser-based tool permitted a user to write
notes, clip text and images, and save links from pages during a browser
session. The information was saved to an online "notebook" with
sharing and collaboration features. Notebooks could be made "public",
or visible to others, and also could be used to collaborate with a list of
users (either publicly or privately). As of July 2012, all Notebook data had
been exported and Google Notebook was shut down.
Google Buzz
Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and
messaging tool that was developed by Google and integrated into their web-based
email program, Gmail. Users could share
links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in
"conversations" and visible in the user's inbox. On October 14, 2011,
Google announced that it would be discontinuing the service and that the
existing content would be available in read-only mode
Google Answers
Google Answers was an online knowledge market offered by
Google that allowed users to post bounties for well researched answers to their
queries. Asker-accepted answers cost $2 to $200. Google retained 25% of the
researcher's reward and a 50 cent fee per question. In addition to the
researcher's fees, a client who was satisfied with the answer could also leave
a tip of up to $100. In late November 2006, Google reported that it planned to
permanently shut down the service, and it was fully closed to new activity by
late December 2006, although its archives remain available
Google Lively
Google Lively was a web-based virtual environment produced
by Google. It was discontinued on December 31, 2008. It featured
three-dimensional atmospheres where users could interact with each other in a
room and create avatars and cartoons to communicate with each other.
Jaiku
Jaiku was a social networking, micro-blogging and life
streaming service comparable to Twitter. Jaiku was founded in February 2006 by Jyri
Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year.
It was purchased by Google on October 9, 2007.
Google Video
Google Videos was a video search engine, and formerly a free
video sharing website, from Google Inc. Before removing user-uploaded content,
the service allowed selected videos to be remotely embedded on other websites
and provided the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube.
This allowed for websites to host large amounts of video remotely without
running into bandwidth or storage capacity issues. Google
Videos was shut on August 20, 2012. The remaining Google Videos content was
moved to YouTube.
Google Labs
Google Labs was a page created by Google to demonstrate and
test new projects. Google described Google Labs as "a playground where our
more adventurous users can play around with prototypes of some of our wild and
crazy ideas and offer feedback directly to the engineers who developed them.
Google X
Google X was a
project released by Google Labs on March 15, 2005 and rescinded a day later. It
consisted of the traditional Google search bar, but it was made to look like
the Dock user interface feature of Apple's Mac OS X operating system. Google
did not release any official statement as to why the project was shut down.
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