So… after several years of adopting Google Plus’ social media engine, we, our reader base, Google themselves, and oh, the rest of the social universe, are soon bidding adieu.

Google Plus turned out to be “Google minus”. Oh well. We gave it the old college try, sticking with them in their quest to connect more, better.

Alas, Google Plus will end up as one of Google’s experiments, that is going the way of:
Google Reader
Google Gadgets
iGoogle
Google Talk
Google Health
Knol
Google Insights for Search
Google Trends
Picnik
Google Buzz
Aardvark
Sidewiki
Google Notebook
Google Dictionary
Google Labs
Google Wave
SearchWiki
Dodgeball
Jaiku
Google Lively
Google Page Creator
Zeitgeist
Google Answers
Google X
Google Catalog
Google Web Accelerator
Google Video Player
Google Audio Ads
Google Sets
SearchMash
Writely
Google Check Out