The One Pass payment platform for Internet news websites was shut down as Google continued house cleaning launched when co-founder Larry Page took charge last year.
One Pass, which failed to catch
on since it launched in February of 2011, was swept out with Google Talk
free voice or text conversation Web applications for smartphones other
than Android-powered handsets with the software built in.
"Over the last six months we've
done a lot of spring cleaning -- although it's all happened out of
season," cloud services director Matthias Schwab said in a blog post at the California-based company's website, on Friday.
"Spring has now arrived and we're ready to close or combine another round of products."
One Pass let publishers set prices for online articles, with Google
getting a 10 percent cut of revenue as opposed to the 30 percent bite
that iPhone and iPad maker Apple takes out of transactions in gadget
applications.
One Pass features, and users, were being shifted to a Google Consumer Surveys service, according to Schwab.
Page has made it a priority to get rid of products that are
performing poorly so resources can be focused on more promising
offerings.
The latest house cleaning
included moving an online service providing maps to where flu
vaccinations are available in the United States being moved to HealthMap
Flu Vaccine Finder.
Support for Google Sync for Blackberry smartphones was eliminated.A Patent Search homepage devoted to intellectual property registered with US regulators was being re-directed to the main query engine at google.com.
"The new experience loads twice
as fast as the old Patent Search homepage, contributes to a unified
search experience across Google, and sports Google Doodles as well,"
Schwab said.
"The team looks forward to
including patents from other countries soon, and will be rolling out
additional features to Patent Search on google.com in the future."
Resource : Yahoo News
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