Google Shuts Down Related Links Product

Jul 19, 2007 at 9:14am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google Stops “Related Links” Service from Google Blogoscoped reports that Google has stopped their Related Links product without telling anyone.

Google told Philipp Lenssen that they shut down Related Links on April 30th. They said they decided to pull out the most “compelling functionalities of Related Links and integrated them into new and improved products, like the AJAX Search API and AdSense Link Units.” So those of you who have implemented Related Links on your sites, like I did over here, now need to remove them from their pages.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Google Shuts Down Related Links Product

Michael Martinez, July 19th, 2007 at 12:08 pm ET:

I am finding less and less value in Google’s products for Webmasters, and discontinuing services without warning doesn’t help matters in the least.

Thanks for the heads up.

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