Advertisment

Google to retire Meebo Bar; help you personalize home

author-image
Chokkapan
New Update

BANGALORE, INDIA: Google plans to shut down in June the Meebo Bar for receiving and sharing personalized content from websites in favor of Google+ tools for interaction between websites and users, reports PC World.

Advertisment

The Internet giant acquired Meebo last June. Besides offering a toolbar that offered personalized content as well as displayed advertisements, with connections to Twitter and other social networks, Meebo, set up in 2005, also offered an instant messaging application.

Last July, Google decided to shelve Google Talk Chatback, which allowed websites to embed a widget to engage with their visitors. "It's now outdated, so we're turning off Chatback and encouraging websites to use the Meebo bar," Google said in a post announcing the discontinuation or merger of over 30 of its products, added PC World.

Meebo will be discontinued on June 6, as the team working on Meebo has decided to focus its resources on initiatives like the recently launched Google+ Sign-In, which includes interactive posts and over-the-air app installs from publisher websites, and Google+ plug-ins such as the +1 recommendation button, the Meebo team said on the Meebo website.

In a related development, Google has also plans to revamp its simplistic home page, by getting it personalised based on individual user preferences and also by adding relevant information about weather, traffic conditions and stocks.

Google is reportedly working on bringing Google Now, its personalised homepage feature of its Android phones to the Web and to its search page. The tech giant is testing Google Now for its homepage, according to Google System, a website.

tech-news