Google is shutting down its Neighbourly app on May 12

The India-only project hasn't grown as the company had hoped

Google's approach to software can be described as "Just throw it at customers and see what sticks." That shows — many beloved but ultimately unsuccessful projects have been killed over the years, and mentioning Inbox, Google+, and Google Reader only scratches the surface. The latest platform to join the Google graveyard is Neighbourly, Google's India-only Q&A app for questions about places and events in your community.

On a help page, Google talks a lot about how it wanted to connect people hyperlocally with the service, but in essence, it's shutting it down a few days before its second birthday because "the app hasn't grown like we had hoped." The company wants to use the know-how gained from the platform to improve its existing services.

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