The US financial meltdown crisis keeps getting worse and claiming more victims. Dozen of companies in the online world have suffered huge losses or folded completely. Tech companies have announced thousands of layoffs and more sure to come. Google is one of them despite of its huge size, sizable revenue and global presence the Company is under siege or simply not feeling good. Google has already announced layoffs and shutdowns services. Recently it has released several blog posts detailing about the upcoming closures are Google Notebooks, Dodgeball, Google Video, Google Mashup Editor, Google Catalogs and Jaiku. Google got no choice but to cope with the current economic crisis, its doing cost cutting strategy. The Company has been experiencing a very tough business. Although there still no further development from Google, these Google services that included in the upcoming closures will continue to stay online Google has yet to establish and announce an exact date. Google Notebooks ( Image Courtesy of WillINeedIT?.com ) will continue to stay online but no longer accept new sign ups. Dodgeball, a Google acquisition which allows users to share their currents locations using SMS will be discontinued permanently and entirely. Was the company at risk? Jaiku (another Google acquisition) the micro blogging platform will be ported to Google App engines and will be released as an open source project on Google Code. Of course there are always plenty of good reasons for Google’s decision to close these services, the company are eyeing on those services that does not performing well. But for me Google Video needs to shutdown completely it’s just a redundant service Google got already Youtube so it’s no longer needed Google Video. What Google need to do right now is to focus mostly on Youtube monetization.
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