Google is killing off seven more products including Wave in an effort to simplify its range of services, reports Google in its official blog.
The products being dropped are:
Google Wave – an attempt to combine email and instant messaging for real-time collaboration
Google Bookmarks List – a service which allowed users to share bookmarks with friends
Google Friends Connect – allowed webmasters to add social features to their sites by embedding a snippet of code
Google Gears – much-hyped effort to maintain web browser functionality when working offline
Google Search Timeline – a graph of historical query results
Knol – a Wikipedia-style project, which aimed to improve web content
Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal – a project which aimed to find ways to improve solar power