Google Kills Google Wave

So Long

Updated Apr. 24, 2017 6:11PM EDT / Published Aug. 04, 2010 3:24PM EDT

Google announced Wednesday it would no longer develop Google Wave as a standalone product, killing the program that the company once hoped would overtake email. Google’s senior vice president of operations admitted in a blog post that Wave “has not seen the user adoption we would have liked,” but insisted the company was still proud of its groundbreaking abilities. Google launched Wave last year at the company’s Google/IO conference, and they had heavily promoted the platform's ability to collaborate, share images and media in real time, and improve spell-checking by context. The code will still live on, so other developers who already had access to it could possibly integrate it into new, innovative products.

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Google Kills Google Wave