Google is bidding process good-bye to another set of items that have never get on. The search engines Relevant, One Complete, and Certain Search are among the newest items The search engines declared is submitting to stay on a town upstate where they can run and play.

Some products are getting the ax as part of its latest “spring cleaning”:

• Google Related, a browser extension that served up recommended links in the form of news, video, web, and image content from around the web, didn’t see the kind of adoption Google expected. Launched in August, Google Related will be retired “over the next few weeks.”

• One Pass, the subscription service for news publishers that was revealed in February 2011, has been shut down due to low usage. Google will transition to “other platforms”, such as paywall substitute Google Consumer Surveys, which launched earlier this month. Google Consumer Surveys basically allows businesses to conduct surveys and allows visitors to gain access to content that would otherwise be off-limits behind a paywall/subscription area.

• The Patent Search homepage is being redirected to Google.com, with Google promising it will load twice as fast, feature Google Doodles, and expand with patents from other countries “soon.”

• Google Flu Vaccine Finder is retired on Google but will reappear at HealthMap Flu Vaccine Finder.

• APIs are being retired and API deprecation policies are changing.

• Google Talk mobile web app is shutting down.

• Picasa for Linux is being deprecated.

Google continues to eliminate underperforming products and services, a process which began not long after Larry Page took over as CEO last year. Below are stories to more coverage of dead Google products.

Source: Searchenginewatch

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