Also getting the ax is Google Talk Chatback, which lets Web publishers plant a Google Talk widget on their sites to communicate with their visitors. That product is now "outdated" so it will be turned off and websites are being encouraged to use the Meebo bar instead.

Google Video, which has been closed to uploads since mid-2009, will have its remaining hosted videos transferred to YouTube "later this summer," and its users will have until Aug. 20 to migrate, delete or download their content.

"We'll then move all remaining Google Video content to YouTube as private videos that users can access in the YouTube video manager," Eichner wrote.

In a related , Google said that the Google Video team will be solely focused on video search.

Also going the way of the rotary phone is iGoogle, the company's personalized home-page portal. Launched in 2005, iGoogle will be closed on Nov. 1, 2013, which gives its users about 16 months "to adjust or export their data."