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joelg236  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Google Graveyard

A lot of them ended in 2011. What happened that year?





djw  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Google+ was released in 2011. Not sure if there's any correlation.

It could be that they were saturated by products at that point and decided to hone their attention on fewer, bigger ones.

user-inactivated  ·  4047 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To expand on your second point, 2011 was the year that they began their spring cleaning initiative - blog posts 1, 2 and 3 so I think you were dead right there.