Having been launched in October three years back, Google Music India has been shut down. Google has confirmed this development, implying that the service was rather unnecessary in the presence of other legal options such as Saavn, Dhingana, In.Com, and Gaana, which pop up when looking for tracks.
Clicking on the tool’s main website will now direct people to the original search service. The report initially originated through NextBigWhat and was later spotted by the folks over at MediaNama. Apparently, the Mountain View-headquartered company had treated this product as a ‘labs’ tool.
To elaborate, lab products are those services which are built on an experimental basis and hold no concrete future. Google Music India had earlier proven itself as the one stop shop to find all Bollywood tracks. It did so by partnering with the aforementioned music utilities and many more. With that privilege gone, song hunters are now left with no choice but to individually browse through the present tools.
While the search engine has recently been in the news for coming up with new offerings, it has also been on a product-slashing spree. We say this because it recently spoke of axing Latitude for Android, iOS and even the website for that matter. This, however, will not occur until August 9. Then it’s also planning to kill the check-in feature in Maps, only to transfer the attribute to G+.
With Music India joining the list of eradicated services, we can only wonder what the company will be bidding farewell to next.