Learn Spring-Cleaning … Inward Spring!
Over the concluding vi months we’ve done a lot of spring cleaning—though it’s all happened out of season. Spring has instantly arrived as well as we’re create to unopen or combine unopen to other circular of products. Focus is crucial if nosotros are to improve our execution. We convey as well as then many opportunities inwards front end of us that without hard choices nosotros adventure doing likewise much as well as non having the send upon nosotros strive for. Here are the details on the changes we’ll live on making:
Update Jun 5: Starting September 1, 2012 Google Sync for BlackBerry volition halt working. We encourage y'all to switch to BlackBerry Internet Service. Please contact BlackBerry for details on how to railroad train BIS.
- We are making a issue of API changes, adopting a one-year deprecation policy for for certain APIs as well as removing the deprecation policy for others. Additionally, nosotros are retiring unopen to sometime APIs alongside express usage. We convey also updated the deprecation policy for all APIs to live on much clearer as well as to a greater extent than concise. Please come across the Developers Blog for to a greater extent than information.
- Google Flu Vaccine Finder was a maps mash-up that showed nearby vaccination places across the United States, built past times a minor xx percentage squad during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic when at that topographic point was a dire require for fast as well as accurate information on influenza vaccination locations. Google Flu Vaccine Finder is instantly retired, only we’re pleased to exceed the baton to the experienced squad at HealthMap every bit they launch HealthMap Flu Vaccine Finder.
- Google Related is an experimental browsing assistant launched to aid people detect interesting as well as useful information piece they browse the web. The production isn’t experiencing the sort of adoption we’d like, as well as piece nosotros soundless believe inwards the value provided to our users, we’ll live on retiring the existing production over the adjacent few weeks, as well as then the Related squad tin focus on creating to a greater extent than magic moments across other Google products.
- Beginning June 1, 2012, we’re ending our back upward for Google Sync for BlackBerry. If y'all already convey the app installed, you’ll soundless live on able to occupation it; soundless it volition non live on available for download afterward June 1. Google Sync for BlackBerry volition halt working on September 1, 2012. If y'all currently occupation Google Sync for BlackBerry, nosotros encourage you to switch to BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) or the Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server going forward. These alternatives offering a ameliorate overall experience, every bit y'all tin sync your electronic mail messages, calendar as well as contacts through a unmarried service.
- We’re shutting downwards the mobile spider web app for Google Talk. For mobile users who desire to proceed using Google Talk, nosotros recommend using the native Google Talk app on Android or whatever XMPP-compliant apps on other mobile platforms.
- One Pass, our payment platform for online tidings publishers, has been unopen down. We are working alongside existing partners to brand the transition from One Pass to other platforms, including Google Consumer Surveys. While One Pass is going away, nosotros volition proceed working alongside publishers to create novel tools.
- We're redirecting the sometime Patent Search homepage to google.com to brand for certain everyone is getting the best possible sense for their patent searches. Over the past times few months, we've been making updates as well as improvements to the Patent Search functionality on google.com—not entirely are y'all able to search the same laid of U.S. patents alongside the same advanced search options, the novel sense loads twice every bit fast every bit the sometime Patent Search homepage, contributes to a unified search sense across Google, as well as sports Google Doodles every bit well. The squad looks frontward to including patents from other countries soon, as well as volition live on rolling out additional features to Patent Search on google.com inwards the future.
- We launched a Picasa, it has perish hard to hold parity on the Linux version. So today, we’re deprecating Picasa for Linux as well as volition non live on maintaining it moving forward. Users who convey downloaded as well as installed older versions of Picasa for Linux tin proceed to occupation them, though nosotros won’t live on making whatever farther updates.
- Starting today, the Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac as well as Picasa Web Albums Plugin for iPhoto volition no longer live on available for download. People tin proceed to occupation the uploader as well as plugin if they are installed. However, we’ll no longer hold these tools. We strongly encourage people to download Picasa 3.9 for Mac, which includes upload as well as iPhoto import features.
Update Jun 5: Starting September 1, 2012 Google Sync for BlackBerry volition halt working. We encourage y'all to switch to BlackBerry Internet Service. Please contact BlackBerry for details on how to railroad train BIS.