Google Kills 10 More Projects, Including Aardvark

Google continues to trim its offerings, announcing that 10 projects will either be discontinued or merged into other products. Aardvark, a Q&A social search startup acquired from former Googlers for $50 million in 2010, is the most noteworthy among the closings. 

Also gone or repackaged are:

Google has been busy eliminating waste since Larry Page returned as CEO earlier this year. Slide, acquired for $179 million, was shut down a couple weeks ago, as were numerous other projects ( Google Friends, APIs , Firefox Toolbar , Google Directory , Google Health and PowerMeter ), as well as Google Dictionary .

And Google has been sorting through its Labs projects , as part of a planned phase out . Here’s what Google has revealed so far:

Source: http://searchenginewatch.com