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Inside Google Book Search: Farewell, Google Catalog Search
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 5:24 PM Posted by Punit Soni, Product Manager In 2001, we launched Google Catalog Search as a demonstration of a new technology (called OCR if you're interested) that made it possible to search the full text of hundreds and soon thousands of product catalogs. In ...
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Google bid farewell to Catalog Search
D' Technology Weblog — ... , Google is now bidding it a farewell to bring more and more types of offline information such as magazines, newspapers and of course, books, online. ...

Google Kills Services: Notebook, Dodgeball, Others Gone
Today @ PC World — ... clone, will become a part of Google Apps while Dodgeball, the mobile social networking will be discontinued. None of these two services were wildly popular, but at least Google Apps users will soon have Jaiku as a built-in microblogging platform to enjoy. On a larger scale, this means that Twitter will only have one competitor left - FriendFeed, which funnily enough was founded by former Google employees. Farewell, Google Catalog Search [image] Catalog Search, the predecessor of Google's controversial Book Search, will also be closing down, as the product wasn't really that ...

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