Google cuts other dead wood: goodbye Buzz
Google announces the cutting of a series of projects, already dead for some time, will be permanently withdrawn from next January 15.
“Changing the world requires focusing on the future and honestly with the past.” With this explanation, Google has announced plans for the winter, thus inaugurating a new era of cuts which follows the other dead branches that Larry Page wanted to kill since he took over from Eric Schmidt at the helm of the group.
The first casualty of the cuts is Code Search, a project designed to allow users to search among the stored open source codes: the deadline is January 15, 2012. The second victim, the more bombastic, it’s Google Buzz (including API): The project was launched with great fanfare to begin the road to social group, is dead for some time and Google’s announcement does nothing but celebrate the end (users will still be given the option of obtaining their content from the site through Google Takeout).
Other projects that will be accrued from 15 January are Jaiku (acquired by the group in 2007), the social functions of iGoogle (but not iGoogle itself) and finally The University Research Program, project to a small group of academic centers. Of Like.com and Boutiques.com, the destinies were already known: deleted projects, funds allocated for other realities.
About Google Buzz, Bradley Horowitz has subsequently added through his account on Google + comment, extremely sincere and self-evident:
What have we learned from Buzz? We learned that privacy is not a function … What is a fundamental product.
The choices of Larry Page, however, seems to betray as a lack of confidence in the choices made by Eric Schmidt in the past, when the acquired start-ups have proliferated without have an effect on the fate of the radical group. Now Page decided to focus strongly on Google + and everything else is paying the Bill.
Cut after cut.
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