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Jun 26, 2011

Google closes Health and PowerMeter services

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Two of Google's services must be shut down after failing to take / draw users in the energy market and use of health services. 


Google has closed the two services are expected to make a serious impact on health and use of Energy in the society area.
Health Services Google (Google Health and Google PowerMeter Service, launched respectively in 2008 and 2009. Health Project (Google Health) aims to give Internet users more access to data about themselves that is usually held by a doctor, and then to be able to control their own health. PowerMeter Project is hoped, will encourage people to reduce their energy consumption levels by showing them how much they will use.
The service is operated by Google under the slogan "Better health comes from better information" and "Save Energy. Saves money. Making the change".
On the official Google Blog, Aaron Brown and Bill Weihl [Aaron Brown, Senior Product Manager, Google Health and Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar], says that this service will be provided for a limited time so that people can retrieve their data. "Both [the service] is based on the idea that the more informed and better, people can make intelligent choices, both in terms of managing personal health and well-being, or save money and conserve energy at home," they wrote in the official Google Blog. "Although it does not scale as we expected, we believe they highlight the importance of access informasim."

An analysis on Google Health ReadWriteWeb.com to failure showed that the product itself is good, but Google has not been supportive in the right way to operate it. "Google's decision to pull the plug on Google Health will eventually be a bad thing for the whole industry," said Brian Ahier Oregon IT specialists such as I quoted from ReadWriteWeb.com.
For Google Health, menreka still give a little time to download information about health prior to January 1, 2013. And while we will discontinue service Google Health in early 2012, we will keep the download option is available for one more year, starting early 2013. "Write them." As for PowerMeter users will have access to 16 September 2011.
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[Google.Blogspot.com] [ReadWriteWeb.com.] [Telegraph.co.uk]

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