# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published August 9, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-most-missed-discontinued-google-product*

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## Current results (0 votes)

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.

Tags: apps, tech, software, google, nostalgia
