Buzz to be terminated very soon by Google

Google has its plan to kill off Buzz, which was its first trial towards social networking initiated around 18 months back by Google. Due to its new initiative in social networking i.e. Google plus, now Google is planning to close Buzz in a week or so.

It seems Google is scrapping a number of its products which have not yet achieved a major footprint on www. Dumping such projects to the scrap heap, including Code Search, a tool for finding open-source code on the Web, and Jaiku, a Twitter-like micro-blogging service that Google acquired in 2007, are more such examples. 

Earlier Google had an explosion of wrong steps taken with the launch of Buzz. One of them was that the network's default settings automatically set members to follow their most e-mailed contacts and then posted those contacts publicly after a user "buzzed" about something. Read this blog post for story of one such Buzz victim. Though, Google started altering all such settings and features in order to rectify its mistake but it was too late by then and the damage had already been done.

Closing Buzz will also help Google to focus on its 3 month old effort of social networking Google plus, which according to Google, is going to be a big success and a competitor to Facebook. Google claims that Google plus has now grown up to 40 millions users from the earlier count of 10 million users at the end of last quarter. 

For a not, as per Google's spokesperson, closing Buzz will not allow you to post anything on Google Buzz later on, but you can still view the older posts and they will also be able to download it using Google export tool TakeOut.