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Google has discontinued well over 250 products and services, so no single answer can list “all” of them exhaustively. Still, the main “graveyard” sites maintain near‑complete public lists and make clear just how extensive the shutdowns have been.killedbygoogle+3
Google Reader and the mobile app, Google Trips, were extremely useful, but Google discontinued them. I believe NotebookLM might have a similar fate (!)
Some of the most “useful” losses
From those sources and recent retrospectives, the services most often remembered as genuinely useful include: Google Reader (RSS), Inbox by Gmail, Google Play Music, Google Podcasts, Google Cloud Print, Google Hangouts, Google+, Picasa, Google Glass, Google URL Shortener, Google Code, Google Wave, Google Notebook, and many others. These are highlighted in “Google graveyard” articles precisely because they had active, often professional, user communities before being shut down.croma+4
Best master lists
Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com) is the most widely cited catalog; it tracks discontinued Google apps, services, and hardware and currently lists hundreds of entries with dates and brief descriptions.killedbygoogle
Google Cemetery (gcemetery.co) offers a similar “graveyard” organized by product type, reasons for shutdown, and years active.gcemetery
A “Killed by Google” dataset on Kaggle provides a structured CSV of discontinued products up to 2023, including start/end years and categories for each entry.kaggle
Wikipedia’s “Category: Discontinued Google services” and “List of Google products” pages also maintain running lists with links, dates, and notes on replacements or successors.wikipedia+1
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