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Quentin Hugon, Benjamin Benoit and Damien Leloup have created a memorial page for projects adandoned by Google over the years including: Google Answers, Lively, Reader, Deskbar, Click-to-Call, Writely, Hello, Send to Phone, Audio Ads, Google Catalogs, Dodgeball, Ride Finder, Shared Stuff, Page Creator, Marratech, Goog-411, Google Labs, Google Buzz, Powermeter, Real Estate, Google Directory, Google Sets, Fast Flip, Image Labeler, Aardvark, Google Gears, Google Bookmarks, Google Notebook, Google Code Search, News Badges, Google Related, Latitude, Flu Vaccine Finder, Google Health, Knol, One Pass, Listen, Slide, Building Maker, Meebo, Talk, SMS, iGoogle, Schemer, Notifier, Orkut, Hotpot, Music Trends, Refine, SearchWiki, US Government Search, Sparrow, Web Accelerator, Google Accelerator, Accessible Search, Google Video, and Helpouts. Missing from the list that we remember are Friend Connect, Google Radio Ads, Jaiku, SideWiki, and Wave.
We knew there were a lot, but who knew there'd be so many. Which abandoned Google project do you wish were still around?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2015, @08:58AM
they were quite useful.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by datapharmer on Saturday March 07 2015, @09:57AM
They gathered enough data... these services were just there to get a training set of data for voice recognition algorithms. Once they had a sufficient sample size they didn't need to offer them anymore. It was good for training data because it was relatively structured data (business and city names, addresses, etc) but allowed them to gather a variety of phonetics and accents.