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Even Google Is Feeling the Crunch

Dec 20, 2008

The Wired Science blog reports that Google will shut down its scientific data service in January without ever officially launching the product. In an email to beta testers, Google told users that it would nix its Google Research Datasets project, anticipated to help scientists deal with the data deluge by offering them a place to upload their data, in favor of "other activities such as Google Scholar, our Research Programs, and publishing papers about research at Google," the email says.

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