Google is retiring two of its products, Google Health and Google Powermeter. Google Health will shut down on January 1, 2012. Its purpose was to give people access to their personal health and wellness information. According to the Google blog "Google Health is not having the broad impact that we hoped it would. There has been adoption among certain groups of users like tech-savvy patients and their caregivers, and more recently fitness and wellness enthusiasts. But we haven’t found a way to translate that limited usage into widespread adoption in the daily health routines of millions of people."
Google Powermeter will cease operations on September 16, 2011. Powermeter was created to " raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to data surrounding their energy usage." Google states Powermeter is ending because "efforts have not scaled as quickly as we would like."
Users will have until the deadline to gather their information. Instructions to get your information for each service can be found here.
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