Google fall spring-cleaning

Google Closes 10 businesses On Fall Spring

The boss of Google, Larry Page, have a new strategy. Towards the autumn of this year, the company’s largest site search engine will shut down 10 side businesses, including those related to social search, software for the PC, to web security.

Since serving as chief executive in January, Page was Google’s focus on core business to achieve greater profits. Meanwhile, Google’s Senior Vice President Alan Eustace call this action as a “clean-up in the fall.”

According to Eustace, the move is a new strategy for his company. “The goal for Google users get more benefit. In addition, we also can produce products that are more powerful, “he said.

Closing of the 10 a side business that Google does not necessarily make its employees jobless. Eustace promised that all employees will be retained and transferred to another division of Google’s business.

Most businesses are closed are the result of the acquisition of companies, including the Aardvark, the social search engine that Google bought for U.S. $ 50 million in 2010, and the Google Web Security, part of the purchase of Postini in 2007.

Other businesses are also covered Google’s Marissa Mayer is the flagship feature, Fast Flip. This feature facilitates the user while reading a magazine or a newspaper web page flipping pages as the print edition. When introduced at the TechCrunch50 event in 2009, the feature received tremendous response.

When Google launched Google Desktop in 2004, application for PC that lets users search for files or documents on their computers, as well as extraordinary acclaim. Even the popularity of this feature is able to defeat a similar feature in Windows XP.

Google has also closed the business Google Pack, a collection of software are available for download such as Google Notebook and Google Image Labeler, which allows users to label the images so that the image quality of the Google search engine is better.

Some other businesses that suffered a similar fate, among others Sidewiki, which allows people to comment web content; Subscribed Links, which lets people make a more specific search results, and Google Maps API for Flash, made specifically for ActionScript developers integrating Google Maps with the application them.

Tenth business is part of a long list of Google’s business is forced to close in the era of leadership Page. In June, Google has also closed the Google Health, Google PowerMeter Services, and Google Labs.

Interestingly, last week, Google also shut Photovine, a photo sharing service in cyberspace, which has just launched a week earlier. Page does not want to mess around with the various businesses that do not gain a big advantage.

Google fall spring-cleaning