10 Products That Went Under Google's Axe
#7 Knol
Knol was a Google project that aimed to include user-written articles on a range of topics. It was announced on December 13, 2007, and was opened in beta to the public on July 23, 2008 with a few hundred articles mostly in the health and medical field. On January 16, 2009, Google announced that Knol had grown to 100,000 articles, and users from 197 countries visited Knol on an average day. On November 22, 2011, Google announced that Knol was to be phased out in favor of Annotum. It was closed on April 30, 2012, and all content was deleted by October 1, 2012.
#6 Google Talk
Google Talk is an instant messaging service that provides both text and voice communication. It was integrated in to other Google services like gmail, Orkut, Google+, and others. However Google replaced the service with its Google Hangouts on May 15, 2013.
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