Over the last 2 years Google and its nonprofit fallout has launched a variety of scientific projects in areas ranging from education of astronomy to lunar exploration to make electric car batteries work better. But the economic crisis in the Silicon Valley has forced the company to scale back plans to offer archival data services to scientists in the fields, including astronomy and biomedicine, Wired Science reported:
Palimpsests once known, but more recently going by the staid name, Google search datasets, the service would offer scientists a way to store massive amounts of data generated in a growing number of areas . About 30 data sets - for most tests - had already been uploaded to the site.
The dream seems to have fallen prey to tighten their belts to the most innovative company in Silicon Valley.
"As you know, Google is a company that promotes experimentation with new innovative products and services. At the same time, we must carefully balance as to ensure that our resources are used in the way the most effective bring maximum value to our users, "wrote Robert Tansley Google the name of the Google team research datasets to internal testers.
" It was a difficult decision, but we decided not to continue work on Google search datasets, but instead focus our efforts on other activities such as Google Scholar, our research programs and publication of papers on research at Google, "he wrote.
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