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Google has shared the dates that several products "which haven’t had the impact we’d hoped for," will be shutting down.
While the company had already announced the end of Google Wave and Google Gears, their respective demises now have specific dates attached. Additionally, Google's long fogotten Wikipedia competitor -- Google Knol -- has been added to the chopping block.