Google kills its Notifier service, pushes users to Chromeo Googles diminutive Notifier utility has been quietly discontinued. Notifier first debuted in 2005 as an app that lived in your Macs menu bar... Googles diminutive Notifier utility has been quietly discontinued. Notifier first debuted in 2005 as an app that lived in your Macs menu bar or Windows system tray and served you alerts for Gmail and Google Calendar reminders. Now with smartphones and Chromes own notification center, the Notifier app and service are no longer necessary and have been discontinued. Google is also urging users of Notifier to migrate to the companys Chrome browser, which features its own push notification service. Alerts from Gmail and Google Calendar are displayed with popup cards that you can interact with, which is much more powerful than Notifier, which checked for new alerts every 2 minutes. Chromes notifications will only get more powerful as Google works to incorporate more services like Google Now, which can be found in the latest Chrome Canary alpha. source : Google Support
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 05:13:02 +0000