Terminated release of Google Desktop and other Google programs.

Google Desktop, another retirement product, is Google Desktop, an offline program add-on for operating systems. She appeared in 2004 and performed a number of functions that are missing in the OS. For example, full-text search in all documents on a computer, including a cache of web pages and text files in different formats.



But with the transition of the entire workflow to online, the need for such a program disappeared. Indeed, mail, work files, books and other text documents are now customarily stored in Gmail and Google Docs. There is a full-text search, it also appeared in almost every OS. And in general, what's the point for Google to improve other people's "OSes" when it already had several of its own (Android, Chrome OS) and cloud services? Therefore, it was decided to close the Google Desktop project, which is quite logical.
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The last post on the official Inside Google Desktop blog is likely to be the last. Since September 14, they promise to remove the program from the server, so that even the old version can not be downloaded from offsite. Existing installations will no longer be updated.

In addition, Google stops developing and distributing the following products: Google Pack , Aardvark, Fast Flip, Image Labeler, Google Notebook (all notes are automatically exported to Google Docs), Sidewiki and Subscribed Link.