Google kills off seven more products

Sometimes you need to scrap an idea that misses the mark – While this may seem like a failure on Google's part – it's not. It's just time to move on to the next "big" idea. And I really didn't like wave anyway!

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The out-of-season "spring clean" brings an end to services including Google Wave, Knoll and Google Gears.

"We're in the process of shutting a number of products which haven't had the impact we'd hoped for, integrating others as features into our broader product efforts, and ending several which have shown us a different path forward," said Urs Holzle, Google's vice president of operations.

Any company with the resources and number of brains that Google has will have ideas, only some of which will fly.

Something may displace Facebook but I'm not sure it is likely to be Google+ Read more at www.bbc.co.uk

 

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