SAN FRANCISCO—Google Inc. said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on its “Google Wave” collaborative messaging service due to a lack of user interest.
Unveiled last year amid much fanfare, Wave was supposed to revolutionize the way people communicated online by letting them exchange messages in real-time and collaboratively edit documents. It was regarded by some in the tech community as part email, part Twitter and part instant messaging.
But the service was confusing to many prospective users and will now join a long list of failed projects that Google has launched over the years as it pushes to expand beyond its core online search advertising business.
“Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product,” Google Senior Vice President of Operations Urs Hölzle said in a blog post.
Mr. Hölzle said Google will extend Wave’s technology for use in other projects, adding that key elements of the software that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, will still be available to customers and partners that want to build upon the technology. He also said the company will work to create tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.
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