You can tell that things are tough all over: Google is starting to clean house a little. They are shuttering a bunch of services that have either been superseded (Google Video), or been eclipsed by the competition (Jaiku):

Google’s announced they’re closing or ceasing development of a variety of products as part of an already continuing move to keep efforts focused on other products with greater usage. These include an end to video uploads to Google Video, closure of Google Catalog Search, Google Notebook, Dodgeball, the microblogging service Jaiku and the Google Mashup Editor.

And, they are laying off a bunch of people who do hiring for them as well. Not a huge surprise; even a generally successful company like Google has to be seeing problems in this economy.

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