Over the last couple of weeks, Google has been quietly telling us that its GOOGLE BUZZ service is quietly going to die.

"Google Buzz is going away, but your posts are yours to keep" is what Gmail users have been seeing at the top of their accounts since mid-october. The BUZZ service has been controversial with many complaints about personal cyber-privacy - and of course people tracking. Oh those poor Drugs dealers using Android phones are now upset when there phones track when/where they are doing they're naughty trade. :)

Lets face it - Buzz never had a chance against TWITTER. Thats an internet fact.

Google official blog has announced that the following components are being killed off in favor of a newer technology - (possibly) from Google+

• Google Buzz is bzzzing its last
• Jaiku, a Facebook'ish social network is quietly bowing its head to the FB giant and going to hide under the stairs
• The Google personalised homepage feature iGoogle is also going into hiding (which I think is a shame)
• University Research Program for Google Search is also on its way out.

Lots of quietly exciting Google times ahead methinks.

"Changing the world takes focus on the future, and honesty about the past. We learned a lot from products like Buzz, and are putting that learning to work every day in our vision for products like Google+," said Google in a blog post.

Personally, even though I am a Google+ user I dont think it will oust the Facebook giant. FB is just too well established. Google+ has some neat features, especially 'circles', but I reckon the same thing will be popping into Facebook in the near future... thats a guess by the way.

anyway - BUZZ OFF!