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The End of Google Wave

by Robert Quigley | 5:31 pm, August 4th, 2010

Google is not going to develop Google Wave any further, the company announced this afternoon. Despite Google’s high hopes for the service, it never really caught on among consumers, and while the company isn’t totally pulling the plug on Wave — they’ll continue to maintain the site “at least through the end of the year” — it’s not going to invest further resources in it beyond “extend[ing] the technology for use in other Google projects.”

Google Blog:

The use cases we’ve seen show the power of this technology: sharing images and other media in real time; improving spell-checking by understanding not just an individual word, but also the context of each word; and enabling third-party developers to build new tools like consumer gadgets for travel, or robots to check code.

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.

Wave has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science. We are excited about what they will develop next as we continue to create innovations with the potential to advance technology and the wider web.

(Google Blog via TechCrunch)

  • aidriiyan

    I was excited at first on the Google Wave. I even have 20 more invites. But it seems bland and I cant think of anything to use it for…RIP Google Wave. Someday in the future, you might get back to life.

  • http://www.susanneiles.com AlchemyDoll

    A real shame. I’d let Wave sit for weeks before finding a use for it . An international project came up for me and I was delighting in its ease of use for collaboration. It turned out to be such a valuable tool in the end…now I’m at a loss. Where to go next?

  • kylemac

    This is so disappointing – the problem with google wave, I think, was the lack of developments. When I first started using it I made a bunch of suggestions (that other people made as well) but there were no changes, even months later. You can’t just dump a beta on people with tons of flaws and expect them to love it without you fixing ANY of those flaws.

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