Google releases a lot of products, but it shuts down a lot of them, too. Some didn’t deserve to be discontinued (we pine for the days of Reader and Inbox), and some probably weren’t long for this world from the start. (What was Google Wave supposed to be, anyway?) The company actually used to shut down products with quarterly “spring cleanings,” but now, it just does so whenever it’s time for another product to be put out to pasture.
Follow along here for all our coverage of everything Google sends to the graveyard.
Google is officially dumping Assistant for Gemini
Google’s taking the extra search box out of your search results
Saluting the Chromecast, one of the great HDMI dongles
Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line
Google is ending an experiment that let you annotate search results
PDF organizer Stack is the latest app to hit the Google graveyard
Google is killing infinite scroll on search results
Today I learned there is a messaging service in Google Maps, and now it’s going away
Google is shutting down developer access to Google Fit APIs.
The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard
Not everyone is losing Google Podcasts after today.
Google Podcasts’ time is almost up.
Google Pay replaced Google Wallet — now it’s going away to make room for Google Wallet
Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired
Hey Google, I was using that button!
Google Assistant Driving Mode will shut down in February
Google removes 17 features from Google Assistant
Google is losing its Fitbit leaders and laying off hundreds of AR employees
Google is finally saying goodbye to Google Play Movies & TV
You can listen to podcasts through Google Podcasts until March 2024.
Google News hammers the final nail into its magazine subscriptions coffin.
Google’s whiteboarding app is joining the graveyard
Google Podcasts is going to the graveyard as YouTube Music takes over
Gmail’s basic HTML view will go to the Google graveyard in 2024
Google kills Pixel Pass without ever upgrading subscriber’s phones
We need Google Reader more than ever.
Google has reportedly killed its Project Iris augmented reality glasses
Google sunsets Domains business and shovels it off to Squarespace
Google will shut down Currents, the work-focused Google Plus replacement
Google will shut down Dropcam and Nest Secure in 2024
Google Stadia is how you shut down a service right
Google’s Duplex on the Web joins the Google graveyard.
Google’s worst hardware flop was introduced 10 years ago today
Google’s handy scrollable Snapshot of your day has disappeared from phones
A very brief history of every Google messaging app
Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon company
Google to shut down Android Things, a smart home OS that never took off
Google discontinues its Google Nest Secure alarm system
Google kills off app that let you check in on loved ones during an emergency
Android 11 officially drops support for Google’s Daydream VR
Google is delaying the shutdown of Chrome apps, but you probably weren’t using them anyway
Google Plus is officially gone after its mobile apps are rebranded as Google Currents
These engineers are trying to rescue a ‘Bookbot’ from the Google graveyard
Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used anyhow
What we can learn from a decade of dead Google projects
Google is shutting down its Cloud Print feature in 2020
Google is open sourcing Cardboard now that the Daydream is dead
Google is discontinuing the Daydream View VR headset, and the Pixel 4 won’t support Daydream
Google finally gives Reader the respect it deserves with an actual gravestone
Google Hire is the next Google tool to be shut down
YouTube discontinues private messages to focus on keeping things public
Google shuts down Nest app for Apple Watch and Wear OS
How to replace Google’s Trips app
The YouTube Gaming app is shutting down this week
Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown, provides extension on existing connections
Google’s Nest changes risk making the smart home a little dumber
Google ends sales of the Pixel 2 and 2 XL
Google+ is officially deleting consumer data starting April 2nd
The original Google Hangouts will start to disappear this October
Google discontinues Chromecast Audio, but you can grab one for $15 while supplies last
Google halted Chinese data collection program after Dragonfly backlash
Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
Google is ending Play Service support for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
Google is shutting down Google+ for consumers following security lapse
Google’s Inbox app is shutting down in March 2019
Google Goggles is dead; long live Google Lens
Google is starting to phase out the old Gmail design
Google is using the impending death of its blob emoji to promote Allo
Google is finally replacing its bad emoji blobs in Android O
Google is killing Gchat for good and replacing it with Hangouts
Google is shutting down Spaces, its experimental group messaging app
Google confirms the end of its modular Project Ara smartphone
Google will end support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux
Google will shut down Picasa this spring
Google takes the ‘last step’ to shut down its failed social network Buzz
Google Reader to shut down July 1st
Google discontinues Listen podcast app, Google Apps for Teams, and Google Video for Business
Google Wave is officially dead starting today
Google’s spring cleaning ends support for BlackBerry Sync, Picasa plug-ins for iPhoto, and more
Google kills off more experimental services, including Wave, Gears, and Knol
Google Buzz to shut down in a few weeks, Google Labs dies today
