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San
Francisco: Google Friday announced to shut down the
highly-controversial social networking product Google Buzz, along
with several other services in the coming weeks, Xinhua reported.
On its official blog, Google announced the death penalty to its
code search engine, Buzz, Jaiku which let users send updates to
friends, the Google personalised homepage feature iGoogle, and the
University Research Program for Google Search.
The shut-downs came as part of Google's housecleaning effort
announced in early September, in which the company said it will
shut down a number of products and merging others into existing
products as features.
"Changing the world takes focus on the future, and honesty about
the past. We learned a lot from products like Buzz, and are
putting that learning to work every day in our vision for products
like Google+. Our users expect great things from us; today's
announcements let us focus even more on giving them something
truly awesome," said Google in the blog post.
Google Buzz, a social networking and messaging tool integrated
into Gmail service, has been widely criticised for privacy
concerns and held back the search giant from expanding its
businesses to the social networking space.
After Buzz, Google launched Google+ in June, which has been
receiving a good response and passed the 40 million user mark, the
company's chief executive officer Larry Page said Thursday.
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