This has been one of the most disappointing news coming out from the search engine giant.

Google has killed a variety of services in the past. But the killing of Google Wave has been one of the most disappointing one.

Google Wave was a pretty revolutionary product. It pushed the limits of the web browsers so much that I used to find it hard to use on a dual core processor.

I had little use for it considering I do not usually work in a collaborative environment. But it was always good to know that such a tool existed.

Google Buzz feels like a subset of Google Wave. I expected Google to include some of the features of Wave in their Buzz service. Now that Wave is dead, that could happen in the near future.

I still believe that Google Wave could have survived and prospered if it was made part of their paid Google Apps offering that is aimed at organizations and companies.

But Google took too long to make it available to general public. And that led to its demise.