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What is the most missed discontinued Google product?

by YPB Team

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 — ranked #11
    Google Reader
    The RSS reader shut down on 1 July 2013, still the most mourned entry in the Google graveyard.
  2. Google Stadia — ranked #22
    Google Stadia
    The cloud gaming service that streamed console games to any screen, switched off on 18 January 2023.
  3. Google Glass — ranked #33
    Google Glass
    The face-worn computer that arrived a decade too early; enterprise sales ended in March 2023.
  4. Inbox by Gmail — ranked #44
    Inbox by Gmail
    The mail app that invented snoozing and bundles, killed in 2019 after its best ideas moved into Gmail.
  5. Picasa — ranked #55
    Picasa
    The desktop photo organiser millions used before phones took over, retired in 2016.
  6. Google+ — ranked #66
    Google+
    The social network Google forced on every account, then closed to consumers in 2019.
  7. Google Hangouts — ranked #77
    Google Hangouts
    The chat and video app that unified Google's messengers, before Google split them apart again.
  8. iGoogle — ranked #88
    iGoogle
    The customisable homepage of widgets that was many people's first personal dashboard.
  9. Google Play Music — ranked #99
    Google Play Music
    The music service with a free locker for 50,000 of your own songs, folded into YouTube Music.
  10. Google Podcasts — ranked #1010
    Google Podcasts
    The plain, fast podcast app retired in 2024 so listeners would move to YouTube Music.
  11. Google Domains — ranked #1111
    Google Domains
    The clean, cheap domain registrar sold off to Squarespace in 2023.
  12. Google Cloud Print — ranked #1212
    Google Cloud Print
    The service that made any printer reachable from any device, discontinued at the end of 2020.
  13. Google Cardboard — ranked #1313
    Google Cardboard
    The folded-cardboard VR viewer that put a headset in millions of hands for a few dollars.
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Picasa, iGoogle, Google+ and the RSS reader retired on 1 July 2013 make up a ranking of thirteen products that no longer exist: https://youpick.best/articles/google-ranked-many-ways

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