Google Voice 411 To Shut Down Due To Success
Google announced that its voice-powered directory services, 1-800-GOOG-411, will shut down on November 12, 2010.
Google said that it is shutting the services because it is a success and wants to further innovate it. “Our success encouraged us to aim for more innovation. Thus, we’re putting all of our resources into speech-enabling the next generation of Google products and services across a multitude of languages.”
Baloney! Tell that to some one on another planet.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is famous for saying that, “the day they announce them is their best day and then after that”, they basically go nowhere and end up being shut down.
Google is becoming more famous for shutting down products than for keeping them in production. Take a look at Google Buzz within a week it fizzled out and it is a matter of time before it too is shut down. Then there is Dodgeball, Mashup Editor, Google Video Uploading, Google Catalog, Google Notebook, Google Wave and more.
