Via Searchengineland
Google’s announced they’re closing or ceasing development of a variety of products as part of an already continuing move to keep efforts focused on other products with greater usage. These include an end to video uploads to Google Video, closure of Google Catalog Search, Google Notebook, Dodgeball, the microblogging service Jaiku and the Google Mashup Editor.
Google’s written officially about the closures and changes in these posts:
- Turning Down Uploads at Google Video
- Farewell, Google Catalog Search
- Stopping development on Google Notebook
- Changes for Jaiku and Farewell to Dodgeball and Mashup Editor
Ending uploads to Google Video makes sense and was long in the cards. Back in 2007, as part of the Google Universal Search rollout, Google Video was transformed more into a meta video search service than a site for hosting videos. Video hosting has still been allowed since then, but Google-owned YouTube was clearly the leading property for this.