Google Expands its Graveyard! What is the Creepy Ulterior Motive Behind it?

Google kills another AI-powered service – Google Duplex, joined over-crowded Google graveyard

Google expands its Graveyard by shutting down Google Duplex on the web, which is an AI-powered service. Google Duplex allows Google Assistant to carry out several tasks on a webpage. Duplex on the Web might carry out a variety of duties, such as assisting customers at online checkout counters, placing orders for takeout from websites, and even buying movie tickets.

Google Duplex on the Web is the latest in a long line of services that Google has progressively discontinued or killed. For instance, Google discontinued several services in 2021, including Google Toolbar, a helpful browser extension that was fairly well-liked by Internet Explorer users. Google TV took the place of Google Play Movies & TV. In 2021, Measure, a standout augmented reality measurement app, was also discontinued.

Each year, Google produces a variety of goods, including hardware and software, but it also retires a selection of them. There have been numerous goods that Google has discontinued over the years. Google ensures that Google fans do not get disappointed by the apps' discontinuation as they are sent to Google's graveyard. 

More about Google Duplex:

The newest AI-voice project from Google, known as Google Duplex, gives users the ability to make reservations at restaurants using their smartphones; in it, the user speaks indirectly to the waiter or waitress via Google Assistant. The user's voice is used to speak through Google Assistant's AI-powered human-sounding voice software. Google Duplex addresses the problems by enabling natural human-computer communication. Instead of the person fine-tuning to the machine, the A.I. system adapts to the individual. As a result, they can typically utter, just as they would if they were speaking to a human. It is also produced by Google Duplex, making the computer systems sound human. It uses words and expressions like "um" and "uh," just like a human would, and has a natural accent. The A.I. system can respond to interruptions and elaborate during a conversation.

What is Google Graveyard?

Killed by Google is a website which is referred to as Google Graveyard. The Google graveyard is a collection of abandoned Google services, goods, hardware, and software that is free and open source. It provides a reliable source of knowledge regarding the background of Google's abandoned initiatives. The information about dying and dead Google products is compiled, researched, and maintained with the assistance of contributors from all across the world.

What is the motive behind shutting down Google Duplex?

The majority of engineers and product managers on any given project will quickly switch to another product after launch, according to company employees who have publicly stated this. Instead of concentrating on maintaining and updating the product they just created, those working on the project will switch to another project where it is easier for them to get a promotion or recognition due to the lack of so-called "promo food."

According to Google's guiding principles of starting, promoting, and ending a project, this is in many ways a self-fulfilling prophecy. Users will gradually hunt for alternatives after a product is no longer maintained or cease using it altogether. Even though there will still be a small number of loyal users, Google doesn't care about them and will end the project for the same reason—a lack of users. Maybe some of these products wouldn't bleed users until they product is obsolete if they were properly maintained and updated with new features.

This seems to be the creepy ulterior motive behind dumping Google duplexes in a graveyard and many other apps and products as well.

Conclusion: 

Looking through Google's abandoned product cemetery reveals an intriguing pattern. The majority of canned services were incorporated into ongoing services years, if not decades after they were discontinued, indicating that some of these services may have launched before their target audiences were prepared for them. Many other products, however, appear to have been introduced without taking into account the markets they were intended for.