{"id":173,"date":"2009-01-15T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/google-trims-the-fat-gets-serious\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:45:54","slug":"google-trims-the-fat-gets-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/google-trims-the-fat-gets-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Trims The Fat, Gets Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 14th, 2009, marks the day that Google grew up.<\/p>\n<p>In a coordinated series of blog postings Google announced its intention to scuttle a number of its poor performing products, let go of some staff and close some of its offices &#8212; showing that in 2009 it intends to focus on keeping costs down and make money. A wise decision in the current economic climate.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the announcements from Google:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googlevideo.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/turning-down-uploads-at-google-video.html\">Turning Down Uploads at Google Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googlenotebookblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/stopping-development-on-google-notebook.html\">Stopping development on Google Notebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/google-code-updates.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/changes-for-jaiku-and-farewell-to.html\">Changes for Jaiku and Farewell to Dodgeball and Mashup Editor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/booksearch.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/farewell-google-catalog-search.html\">Farewell, Google Catalog Search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/changes-to-engineering.html\">Changes to engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/changes-to-recruiting.html\">Changes to recruiting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-ends-google-video-uploads-shutters-notebook-catalog-search-dodgeball-jaiku-16166\">Danny Sullivan<\/a> has a more detailed round-up of today\u2019s changes at Google.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows what 2009 will hold for tech companies, but it goes without saying that whatever happens will be closely tied to what happens in the general economy.<\/p>\n<p>There is (was?) a bubble in Silicon Valley &#8212; a bubble of innocence &#8212; and unfortunately 2009 looks like the year that will pop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 14th, 2009, marks the day that Google grew up. In a coordinated series of blog postings Google announced its intention to scuttle a number of its poor performing products, let go of some staff and close some of its offices &#8212; showing that in 2009 it intends to focus on keeping costs down and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,100,101],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-google-layoffs","tag-tech-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}