Google shut down Reader, its Web-based RSS feed reader, on Monday.
In March, Google announced that the service, which was launched in 2005, would be going away on July 1 because of declining usage. The announcement sent a small group of loyal followers looking for alternatives, and spurred sites like Digg and Feedly to offer their own reader services.
Reader certainly isn’t the first product the web giant has shut down – and it won’t be the last. Here’s a look back some Google products that have been phased out, sunsetted, or just plain shut down.
(Note: This is by no means a comprehensive list of no longer available Google products, just a couple which stood out to us. Tell us what shuttered Google products you miss the most in the comments.)
June 30, 2013 6:39 PM PDT
Photo by: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET
| Caption by: Carrie Mihalcik
In March, Google announced that the service, which was launched in 2005, would be going away on July 1 because of declining usage. The announcement sent a small group of loyal followers looking for alternatives, and spurred sites like Digg and Feedly to offer their own reader services.
Reader certainly isn’t the first product the web giant has shut down – and it won’t be the last. Here’s a look back some Google products that have been phased out, sunsetted, or just plain shut down.
(Note: This is by no means a comprehensive list of no longer available Google products, just a couple which stood out to us. Tell us what shuttered Google products you miss the most in the comments.)
June 30, 2013 6:39 PM PDT
Photo by: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET
| Caption by: Carrie Mihalcik