Google Buzz is Officially Dead

Today, Friday, October 14, 2011, Google officially announced that they are going to shut down some products the most popular of the “unpopular” being Google Buzz.  Initially released in February of 2010, Google Buzz was supposed to be the social media answer to competing with Facebook and Twitter.

“In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won’t be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout.”,  said  Bradley Horowitz, Vice President of Product.  “In addition, later today the Google Labs site will shut down, and as previously announced, Boutiques.com and the former Like.com websites will be replaced by Google Product Search.”

Other products like Code Search, Jaiku, and University Research Program for Google Search will shut down on January 15, 2012.