Google to finally shut down Google Buzz

Today,in a blog post, Google announced it will be shutting down Google Buzz in a few week’s time. Google says it will be shutting down Buzz and the Buzz API to focus on Google+, where users will be able to see their existing Buzz content and download it usingGoogle Takeout.We aspire to build grt products that rlly change people’s lives, products they use two or three times a day. To succeed you need rl focus and thought—thought about what you work on and, just as important, what you don’t work on. It’s why we recently decided toshut down some products, and turn others into ftures of existing products.-Bradley Horowitz, Vice President, Product at Google.In addition to Buzz,Google Labs site will shut down, and aspreviously announced, Boutiques.com and the former Like.com websites will be replaced by Google Product Srch.Other changes happening include:TheUniversity Resrch Program for Google Srch, which provides API access to Google’s srch results for a small of approved academic resrchers, will close on January 15, 2012. Srch, which was designed to help people srch for open source all over the web, will be shut down along with the Srch API on January 15, 2012.Jaiku, a product Google acquired in 2007 that lets users send updates to friends, will be shut down on January 15, 2012. Lastly, Googlewill removeiGoogle’s social ftureson January 15, 2012 to further concentrate on Google+.“Changing the world takes focus on the future, and honesty about the past. We lrned a lot from products like Buzz, and are putting that lrning to work every day in our vision for products like Google+. Our users expect grt things from us; today’s announcements let us focus even more on giving them something truly awesome,” writesBradley Horowitz, Vice President, Product at Google.
Source: The Next Web