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Google Starts Shutting Down Its City Pages, Shifts To Google+ Local
Nov 2nd
Google is in the process of shutting down its collection of city pages — a change that follows the shift from Google Places to Google+ Local, and a change that may be reflective of a larger shift in direction for Google’s local efforts. Mike Blumenthal noticed yesterday that the…
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Google Shutting Down AdSense for Feeds, Classic Plus, More Services
Oct 2nd
Google announced that it is closing down more of its services, bringing the total for the year to 60. Closing down now are the publisher tool AdSense for Feeds, Classic Plus, and Places Directory, an Android app for finding things locally.
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Google Shutting Down Business Video, Team Apps, Listen, Company Blogs
Aug 5th
Google intends to shut down a number of its seldom-used web applications and services. The company will phase out its Google Apps for Teams and Video for Business services, a number of company blogs, and the Google Listen podcast platform.
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Google Related, One Pass Shutting Down
Apr 26th
Google is bidding farewell to another batch of products that have failed to catch on. Google Related, One Pass, and Patent Search are among the latest products Google announced is sending to live on a farm upstate where they can run and play.
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Spain Gets its Own SOPA-Style Anti-Piracy Law For Shutting Down Websites
Jan 2nd
Just as SOPA opponents in the United States prepare for round two in their battle against far-reaching anti-piracy legislation, it appears that their Spanish counterparts just lost theirs. On Friday, the Spanish government approved the Sustainable Economy Law, (SEL) which enables rights holders to have infringing websites shut down within 10 days after a complaint is filed.
Once a complaint is made, a judge can order ISPs to block access to sites that host copyrighted material or have them shut down entirely. The law, which was officially passed early last year but never implemented, was approved by Spain’s new, more conservative government last week and will now be enacted as planned, much to the delight of the film and music industries, as well as other media companies.
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If the law sounds like a more extreme version of SOPA, it probably has something to do with the fact that Spain has a much bigger piracy problem than the United States. Illegal file-sharing runs rampant in the country and it seems like every media industry trade group has a different set of statistics demonstrating how harmful this has been to them.
Under the new law, copyright complaints will be heard by a panel called the Intellectual Property Committee who will decide how to rectify the issue and are endowed with the power to go after site owners.
In the U.S., the anti-piracy legislation currently being debating in Congress would be limited to websites hosted outside the country’s borders and wouldn’t be quite as far-reaching as Spain’s new law. Still, to many the passage of SOPA’s Spanish counterpart feels like a taste of things to come should big media companies in the U.S. succeed in getting some version of SOPA or the Protect IP Act passed by the U.S. Congress.
Paving the Way For U.S. Investments
Pressure from Spanish copyright holders and media companies wasn’t the only factor in ensuring this law was passed. The country stands to see major investments in online streaming services there now that the law is enacted. U.S. media and technology companies, among others, have been waiting to make such investments until more serious steps were taken against file-sharing and online piracy in Spain. The passage of this law is exactly what they were waiting for. The country is already awaiting the launch of Nextflix within its borders early this year, and presumably more services will follow.
The law may lead to more legitimate online streaming services and delight the media industry, but that doesn’t assuage the concerns of digital rights groups, who take issue with SEL along lines similar to those of opponents to SOPA and PIPA in the United States. In short, they argue that granting media companies and judges the ability to shut down websites sets a very bad precedent and could easily be used to censor legitimate sites.
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Google Shutting Down Knol & 6 More Failed Products
Nov 23rd
In what is being called the third installment of their “off-season spring cleaning series”, Google announced more products are being terminated or integrated in to other products.
“Overall, our aim is to build a simpler, more intuitive, tru…
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Yahoo Site Explorer shutting down completely – Kingpin Webmaster News
Nov 22nd
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Yahoo Site Explorer shutting down completely
Kingpin Webmaster News For almost 7 years, SEO professionals and amateurs alike have been able to take advantage of a wide open, nothing up their sleeves backlink popularity tool from Yahoo. This tool, named Yahoo Site Explorer, which anyone could access and use without … Yahoo Sunsets Site Explorer (A Eulogy) Yahoo Site Explorer Shuts Down Today: What Alternatives Are There? Yahoo's Site Explorer Closed for Business |
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Google Shutting Down Buzz and 4 Other Services
Oct 18th
Google announced that several products will be shut down by January 15, 2012. This includes Google Buzz, Code Search, the University Research Program for Google Search, iGoogle social features, Jaiku, and several APIs associated with these service…
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Google Health Shutting Down Doesn’t Mean Google Has Abandoned Health
Aug 7th
Recently, Google announced that it will close Google Health to new consumers on January 1, 2012 and that the service will be retired a year later. Google Health was much different than Google as a search engine; it required that consumers use thei…
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Yahoo Shutting Down Site Explorer This Year
Jul 9th
Yahoo has announced they are shutting down one of the old and beloved SEO tools, Yahoo Site Explorer. This isn’t unexpected, I am personally surprised it has been live for so long. That being said, the tool that launched on September 29, 2005 will be closing down “later this year”…
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