Discarded Google products get a proper burial at this online cemetery

The Google Cemetery (screenshot) already counts more than 150 digital gravestones for products that ended starting from 2006 through to the present. — gcemetery.co/dpa

A company that innovates as quickly and prolifically as Google is sure to have a pile of products that can no longer keep up.

Sometimes they're discarded because they turned out less innovative than desired, other times they had too many problems or featured developments that simply no longer fit into the company's strategy.

One website is devoted to gathering up these products from Google's dustbin and giving them a proper burial: At The Google Cemetery, web developer Naeem Nur has assembled all of these now-dead products.

The website already counts more than 150 digital gravestones for products that ended starting from 2006 through to the present.

The headstones include the recently deceased, such as the Google Plus social network, which ended earlier this month, and those that have been gone far longer, such as Ride Finder, a precursor to Uber, or Shared Stuff, a bookmarking system – both of which died a decade ago.

Visitors can learn not only how old the product was when it died, but also read a short description about what its purpose was at the time. – dpa