Google Announces Shutter Of Knol, Gears, Search Timeline & More
Google has announced the shutting down of several Google services from the Google Search Timeline to their knowledge site, Knol. Here is a list of services Google is closing in the near future or has already closed: Google Bookmarks Lists closing on December 19, 2011, which leaves searchers with no way to recoup their Google […]
Barry Schwartz on November 23, 2011 at 10:21 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google has announced the shutting down of several Google services from the Google Search Timeline to their knowledge site, Knol.
Here is a list of services Google is closing in the near future or has already closed:
- Google Bookmarks Lists closing on December 19, 2011, which leaves searchers with no way to recoup their Google starred results.
- Google Friend Connect is shutting down March 1, 2012 and sending people to Google +.
- Google Gears will lose all support on December 1, 2011 but Chrome now has offline support.
- Google Search Timeline is currently not working anymore.
- Google Wave becomes read only on January 31, 2012 and on April 30, 2012 it goes offline.
- Google Knol will work until April 30, 2012 and then you have until October 1, 2012 to export your data off Knol.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.