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Reports about number of Google services including Dodgeball and Jaiku are being brought into the limelight, that being Google closing down them.

Google acquired Jaiku in late 2007 and it has been seen that the Jaiku takeover hasn’t moved forward since the acquisition. Along with that, Dodgeball, a social software service for mobile phones, is being shutdown as well.

Google has long believed that thoughtful iteration is the best way to build useful products for our users. As part of that process, we are always looking for ways to better focus our teams on the products that can have the most impact, wrote Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google.

The other big announcement is that in a couple of months you wont be able to upload any videos on video.google.com. That is most probably because Google is moving its video infrastructure to YouTube. But the question remains, why has Google video been there for so long?