What is the most missed discontinued Google product?

The Google graveyard is crowded, and some headstones still get flowers. Cult tools, doomed hardware and a social network nobody asked for.

1

Google Reader

The RSS reader shut down on 1 July 2013, still the most mourned entry in the Google graveyard.

2

Google Stadia

The cloud gaming service that streamed console games to any screen, switched off on 18 January 2023.

3

Google Glass

The face-worn computer that arrived a decade too early; enterprise sales ended in March 2023.

4

Inbox by Gmail

The mail app that invented snoozing and bundles, killed in 2019 after its best ideas moved into Gmail.

5

Picasa

The desktop photo organiser millions used before phones took over, retired in 2016.

6

Google+

The social network Google forced on every account, then closed to consumers in 2019.

7

Google Hangouts

The chat and video app that unified Google's messengers, before Google split them apart again.

8

iGoogle

The customisable homepage of widgets that was many people's first personal dashboard.

9

Google Play Music

The music service with a free locker for 50,000 of your own songs, folded into YouTube Music.

10

Google Podcasts

The plain, fast podcast app retired in 2024 so listeners would move to YouTube Music.

11

Google Domains

The clean, cheap domain registrar sold off to Squarespace in 2023.

12

Google Cloud Print

The service that made any printer reachable from any device, discontinued at the end of 2020.

13

Google Cardboard

The folded-cardboard VR viewer that put a headset in millions of hands for a few dollars.