Google shutting down 2 major services..!? Reason..?

Sowmiya Sriram
Google shutting down 2 major services..!? Reason..?

Google, the world's leading tech service company, has decided to remove some of its key services from people's use. 2022 has turned out to be a very bad year for tech companies, with the leading companies also facing a bad september quarter. Through this, it has decided to take several measures including layoffs to reduce costs to deal with the upcoming recession. In this situation, 2 important services of google, headed by Sundar Pichai, a Tamilian, are to be canceled for a specific reason.
Google announced in march 2023 that it will end all support for the Street view app running on the Android platform. google is providing a separate Street view app for Android and iOS on its website. With this, you can get the Street view service on google Maps. There is no need for a separate Street view app as you can get 360 imagery service from google Maps itself through the Street view Studio web app.
Google recently rolled out Street view service in Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Nashik, Vadodara, Ahmednagar, and Amritsar, six years after Street view was banned in 2016. It is noteworthy that many new services have arrived on the google Maps platform itself. Similarly, google is going to remove google Hangouts, the text, video, and voice chat application of google, and upgrade it to google Chat. people used to integrate google Hangouts with Gmail service which is the main service of google company. It has been shut down since Tuesday. The google Hangouts app and service have been removed from the site for Android and iOS since Tuesday, and google Chat is taking its place. A new service using slides and sheets has also been introduced.
Alphabet, the parent company of google, reported a profit of $13.9 billion at the end of the september quarter. That's down 27% from the same september quarter last fiscal year. Alphabet's revenue rose 6 percent to $69.1 billion in the same period. Alphabet's ad sales rose 4 percent to $39.5 billion.Google has recently removed around 16 Android apps from its Play Store for consuming too much battery capacity, consuming too much internet data, and engaging in various ad frauds.


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