News The Google graveyard: all the products Google has shut down

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Google releases a lot of products, but it shuts down a lot of them, too. Some didn’t deserve to be discontinued (we pine for the days of Reader and Inbox), and some probably weren’t long for this world from the start. (What was Google Wave supposed to be, anyway?) The company actually used to shut down products with quarterly “spring cleanings,” but now, it just does so whenever it’s time for another product to be put out to pasture.

Follow along here for all our coverage of everything Google sends to the graveyard.

• Google is officially dumping Assistant for Gemini
• Google’s taking the extra search box out of your search results
• Saluting the Chromecast, one of the great HDMI dongles
• Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line
• Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results
• PDF organizer Stack is the latest app to hit the Google graveyard
• Google is killing infinite scroll on search results
• Today I learned there is a messaging service in Google Maps, and now it’s going away
• Google is shutting down developer access to Google Fit APIs.
• The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard
• Not everyone is losing Google Podcasts after today.
• Google Podcasts’ time is almost up.
• Google Pay replaced Google Wallet — now it’s going away to make room for Google Wallet
• Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired
• Hey Google, I was using that button!
• Google Assistant Driving Mode will shut down in February
• Google removes 17 features from Google Assistant
• Google is losing its Fitbit leaders and laying off hundreds of AR employees
• Google is finally saying goodbye to Google Play Movies & TV
• You can listen to podcasts through Google Podcasts until March 2024.
• Google News hammers the final nail into its magazine subscriptions coffin.
• Google’s whiteboarding app is joining the graveyard
• Google Podcasts is going to the graveyard as YouTube Music takes over
• Gmail’s basic HTML view will go to the Google graveyard in 2024
• Google kills Pixel Pass without ever upgrading subscriber’s phones
• We need Google Reader more than ever.
• Who killed Google Reader?
• Google has reportedly killed its Project Iris augmented reality glasses
• Google sunsets Domains business and shovels it off to Squarespace
• The real Q project.
• RIP Google Currents.
• Google will shut down Currents, the work-focused Google Plus replacement
• Google will shut down Dropcam and Nest Secure in 2024
• Google Stadia is how you shut down a service right
• Google’s Duplex on the Web joins the Google graveyard.
• Google’s worst hardware flop was introduced 10 years ago today
• Google’s handy scrollable Snapshot of your day has disappeared from phones
• A very brief history of every Google messaging app
• Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon company
• Google to shut down Android Things, a smart home OS that never took off
• Google discontinues its Google Nest Secure alarm system
• Google kills off app that let you check in on loved ones during an emergency
• Android 11 officially drops support for Google’s Daydream VR
• Google is delaying the shutdown of Chrome apps, but you probably weren’t using them anyway
• Google Plus is officially gone after its mobile apps are rebranded as Google Currents
• These engineers are trying to rescue a ‘Bookbot’ from the Google graveyard
• Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used anyhow
• What we can learn from a decade of dead Google projects
• Google is shutting down its Cloud Print feature in 2020
• Google is open sourcing Cardboard now that the Daydream is dead
• Google Clips is dead
• Google is discontinuing the Daydream View VR headset, and the Pixel 4 won’t support Daydream
• Google finally gives Reader the respect it deserves with an actual gravestone
• Google Hire is the next Google tool to be shut down
• YouTube discontinues private messages to focus on keeping things public
• Google shuts down Nest app for Apple Watch and Wear OS
• How to replace Google’s Trips app
• The YouTube Gaming app is shutting down this week
• Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown, provides extension on existing connections
• Google’s Nest changes risk making the smart home a little dumber
• Google ends sales of the Pixel 2 and 2 XL
• Google+ is officially deleting consumer data starting April 2nd
• The original Google Hangouts will start to disappear this October
• Google discontinues Chromecast Audio, but you can grab one for $15 while supplies last
• Google halted Chinese data collection program after Dragonfly backlash
• Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
• Google is ending Play Service support for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
• Google is shutting down Allo
• Google is shutting down Google+ for consumers following security lapse
• Google’s Inbox app is shutting down in March 2019
• Google Goggles is dead; long live Google Lens
• Google is starting to phase out the old Gmail design
• Google is using the impending death of its blob emoji to promote Allo
• Google is finally replacing its bad emoji blobs in Android O
• Google is killing Gchat for good and replacing it with Hangouts
• Google is shutting down Spaces, its experimental group messaging app
• Google confirms the end of its modular Project Ara smartphone
• Google will end support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux
• Google will shut down Picasa this spring
• Google takes the ‘last step’ to shut down its failed social network Buzz
• Google Reader to shut down July 1st
• Google discontinues Listen podcast app, Google Apps for Teams, and Google Video for Business
• Google’s latest ‘spring cleaning’ moves all video content to YouTube, kills iGoogle and Symbian Search app
• Google Wave is officially dead starting today
• Google’s spring cleaning ends support for BlackBerry Sync, Picasa plug-ins for iPhoto, and more
• Google kills off more experimental services, including Wave, Gears, and Knol
• Google Buzz to shut down in a few weeks, Google Labs dies today