--And last month, Google announced it would be acquiring mobile phone maker for about $12.5 billion.

Alan Eustace, senior vice president at Google, discussed the 10 products leaving the Google portfolio in a Friday afternoon.

“This will make things much simpler for our users, improving the overall Google experience. It will also mean we can devote more resources to high impact products -- the ones that improve the lives of billions of people,” he wrote.

Google bought for $50 million last year, but already it’s first on the list of discontinued products. Dubbed “a new kind of social search,” it was a service that fielded questions and routed them for answers to the most qualified respondents within the user's social-networking circle.

The fact that more people are using the cloud for storage and computing and Web apps instead of downloadable software plays into the shuttering of Google’s Desktop search application and Google Pack.