10 Discontinued Google Services That Are No Longer Available

Google has launched many more interesting and useful services for its users and always keeps working on other new services to be launched soon. One of the most recent services of Google is Helpouts, I mean Google Helpouts. I hope you have heard about it. By the way, today’s topic is all about the superb Google services that have been discontinued and are no longer available.

So, guys as Google is continuously launching its new services and products time by time, many of its superb services have been discontinued over time.

Here, I’ve listed the 10 most popular Google services that are no longer available or discontinued over the years and months. Have a look on the following list of discontinued Google services:

1. Google Answers

Google Answers was an online knowledge market offered by Google that allowed users to post bounties for well researched answers to their queries. It was discontinued on 28th November 2006. However, it is still accessible for read-only purposes.

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2. Google Buzz

Google Buzz was a social networking and micro-blogging site that remained in existence for a little amount of time. I mean, it was released on February 9, 2010, and discontinued by the end of 2011.

3. Google Dictionary

Google dictionary was an online dictionary by Google and it originated from Google Translate. It was discontinued on 5th August 2011. However, you can use Google search as a dictionary.

4. Google Notebook

It was an online notetaking and web-clipping application that permitted users to clip text, images, and links from web pages while browsing and save them online so that could be accessed from anywhere through any computer. But, Google exported all its data to Google Docs and shut down the service in July 2012.

5. Google Health

Google Health was a fantastic and very useful personal health information centralization service that was introduced by Google in 2008 and terminated in 2011. Now, this service is permanently discontinued and no user can retrieve their data.

6. Google Website Optimizer

Google Website Optimizer was a great and useful service for webmasters especially. It was discontinued on August 1, 2012. This service helped many online marketers and webmasters to increase the value of their websites and traffic.

7. Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect is an online service or we can say it is a social networking site that allows users to build a profile, and share and update information (through messaging, photographs, and video content) via third-party sites. This service is also no longer available and was discontinued on March 1, 2012.

8. Google Insights For Search

Google Insights for Search is a fantastic service by Google to provide insights into the search terms people have been entering into the Google search engine. This service has been discontinued since September 27, 2012, and merged with Google Trends.

9. Google Talk

Google Talk was a very popular desktop instant messaging Google service that almost everybody may have heard about. However, this service is not discontinued but only the name and some of its features have been replaced with the other Google service called Google Hangouts on 15th May, 2013. That’s why I’ve listed it in discontinued services of Google because Google Hangout will be a completely different experience for Google Talk users.

10. Orkut

I think, there is no need to tell you about Orkut because it was the widely popular social networking site of Google that has now been discontinued on September 30, 2014.

So, these were the most popular services of Google that have been discontinued. None of these services are no longer available. But yes, Google Hangouts is available as an advanced version of Google Talk. I’m sure that after remembering and knowing about these services, you’ll definitely miss them a lot.