Google Shuts Down its Nine Projects Along with Google Desktop

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Late spring cleaning to hit a series of projects to Google today. The search giant announced the closure of 10:00 Ventures, which has been replaced by new products, or simply left over from the launch.

Today the first CEO of Google, Larry Page announced the end of many projects of Google and the closure of Aardvark, a startup that Google acquired in 2010, he had experimented with social research. Aardvark concept was designed to help people looking for the person most qualified applications on the web. The company started by former Google employees, and should be completely closed by the end of September. Users are the Aardvark 30 September to download all the information related to user accounts.

Google Desktop is also on the block and close on September 14 between all the APIs and widgets. Reasoning behind Google Desktop is leaving the change occurs in the data storage from the local to the cloud. Google Fast Flip is closed and removed from Google News in the coming days. Flip Fast authorized users to navigate through Google News in a magazine-style presentation and has been thought to be the successor to Google News benefits publishers with high content of micropayments to sell and share in profits from advertising prescription .

Other projects being closed by Google include Google wiki page, a place to leave comments on any web page, since the user is connected to a Google account and subscribed links, a 2006 draft that allows webmasters to create a custom link that users can add to your search results. While users subscribed links only until Sept. 15 to retrieve archived data, users of Google Sidewiki have a couple of months to download content. More projects on the block include Google Notebook, Google Image Labeler, Google Web Security, Google Pack and Google Maps API for Flash. These closures projects allow Google to focus employees on major projects such as Google +.

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