Google will stop with its One Pass service. In the Netherlands, among others, NRC, Villamedia use of the service, which publishers are enabled to let users pay for content. Also other projects within Google need to clear the field.
Google announces under the heading of ‘spring cleaning’ to re-in its service portfolio to start cutting. The company stopped last year with a lot of projects that were unsuccessful. Google One Pass is now going to disappear. The service was set up in February last year announced as ‘freer’ counterpart of Apple’s subscription service for publishers seen. In the Netherlands, among others, Villamedia and NRC of One Pass to use as afrekenplatform for articles.
Google says with its partners, to work on a transition to new tools for publishers. A precise reason for the company not to stop, but most likely is the adoption lower than expected. That is, in any case, the reason for the discontinuation of the Google Related: a service that internet users suggestions made during the browsing. To further cease the zoekbedrijf the support for Google Sync for BlackBerry, Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and Picasa Web Albums Plugin for iPhoto. Also will Picasa for Linux is no longer supported.
Furthermore, get Google about a deprecation policy for certain apis from three years to one year, while this policy a large number of other apis as of april 2015 will be abolished. The apis themselves do not disappear, but the support is shortened or abolished ‘in an attempt to ontwikkeltempo to bring it into line with that of the market’. Some older apis disappear, as the Moderator api and Legacy Portable Contacts api.
Finally disappears the special Patents search page. Google says the opportunities to get via the regular search engine of patents to search extensively and also promises the company that in the future patents of countries other than the USA can be searched using the default search engine.