Google Buzz To Be Taken Off The Air

Google has decided to pull the plug on Google Buzz,a Gmail based social app which laid the foundations for the revolutionary Google+.Although its about to be phased out,old users will still be able to view the Buzz contents as of now until its taken off the air.Not only is Google Buzz shutting down,a couple of social products which includes Jaiku & iGoogle are also expected to be phased out too.All these are expected to happen in a matter of weeks.Also Google code search & a API program which enables researches to Google results will also be terminated.As of now Google Labs site has been shutdown completely.Also social products like Aardvark &  Slide are also being shutdown.Google has decided to focus completely on Google+ which is possibly the fastest growing Social Network in History featuring 40M users in just 3 months.Now as per the Google Blog the following changes will go into effect in the upcoming weeks:

• Code Search, which was designed to help people search for open source code all over the web, will be shut down along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012. 
• 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.
• Jaiku, a product we acquired in 2007 that let users send updates to friends, will shut down on January 15, 2012. We’ll be working to enable users to export their data from Jaiku.
• Several years ago, we gave people the ability to interact socially on iGoogle. With our new focus on Google+, we will remove iGoogle's social features on January 15, 2012. iGoogle itself, and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are. 
• The University Research Program for Google Search, which provides API access to our search results for a small number of approved academic researchers, will close on January 15, 2012.

Even though Google Buzz will not be missed much as it failed to establish itself in the social network,it should be credited as the blueprint on which Google launched Google+