While it may be hard to dispute Google ubiquity in daily online life, not everything the Mountain View, Calif.-based company touches turns to gold. On various company blogs late Wednesday, Google announced it will stop supporting several Web-based services, including Google Video, Google Notebook and Dodgeball.com, a mobile social networking service that lets users share their location with friends via text message.

Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president of engineering, wrote the company will also be porting Jaiku, a micro-blogging site, over to Google App Engine. “After the migration is complete, we will release the new open source Jaiku Engine project on Google Code under the Apache License,” he wrote. “While Google will no longer actively develop the Jaiku codebase, the service itself will live on thanks to a dedicated and passionate volunteer team of Googlers.”

Other applications that didn’t make the cut include the Mashup Editor, currently in limited private beta, and Google Catalog Search, an application that that makes it possible to search the full text of product catalogs. “In recent years, Catalog Search hasn't been as popular as some of our other products,” product manager Punit Soni explained in a blog post. “So tomorrow, we're bidding it a fond farewell and focusing our efforts to bring more and more types of offline information such as magazines, newspapers and of course, books, online.”

Google Notebook, an application that lets users organize clips of information when conducting research online, will also stop receiving support, wrote product manager Raj Krishnan. However, Google will continue to maintain service for those users who have already signed up. Krishnan also listed other Google applications that have Notebook-like functionality, like SearchWiki and GoogleDocs. 

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