Google will close down its Catalog Search, Google Notebook, Dodgeball, microblogging website Jaiku, and the Google Mashup Editor.
Most notably, however, is the end to uploads to Google Video. To date, Google has let users upload videos of any length to its video-sharing service, which also provides video support for its Blogger blogging service.
According to the official Google blog, they'll end uploads "in a few months." They won't remove any videos already hosted on the site, and the service's search features will remain unchanged.
To that end, tech analyst Danny Sullivan argued that Google Video's best destiny was as a search engine.
"Back in 2007, as part of the Google Universal Search rollout, Google Video was transformed more into a meta video search service than a site for hosting videos," he wrote for the blog Search Engine Land, where he's the editor-in-chief. "Video hosting has still been allowed since then, but Google-owned YouTube was clearly the leading property for this."
The end of video uploads affects the adult industry through Blogger. To date, videos uploaded directly to blogger blogs were hosted by Google Video. On top of that, Blogger was an outlier for the usually anti-porn Google. Adult blogs on Blogger have been generally tolerated and marked with "adults only" pages beforehand. Videos hosted on Blogger with nudity and sexual content are private and are not indexed on Google's main video search.
