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Dan Barker posted on Twitter that google.com/cars no longer works.
In 2012, Google launched Google cars that allowed you to search for cars by make, model, year, color and so on. That is now gone.
If you visit the page, you get a message from Google that reads:
Thank you for visiting Google.com/cars.The Google San Francisco Bay Area car search beta program has been discontinued as we focus on building the next version of our experience for car-related searches. Stay tuned for more news!
The page is still indexed by Google, as it still returns a page, but shows it has been discontinued.
But this is what the page looked like before Google killed the service:
Forum discussion at Twitter .
Comments:
Yo Mamma
06/06/2014 02:51 pm
Good Yet another Google Epic FAIL!
Meh!
06/06/2014 05:05 pm
I'm in the auto business and I just realized that Google had a car search service plop!
Dr. Pete
06/06/2014 06:01 pm
I wonder if this is why they're beefing up the car-related Knowledge Graph and adding the "Dealers Nearby" sponsored listings?
Harsh Nagar
06/06/2014 06:45 pm
I agreed Dr. Pete. Google is surely gonna do that...Dealers Nearby sponsored listing surely make good amount of money for Google in near future...