I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Google announces an awful lot of stuff.

Between its annual I/O convention, its fall hardware event, and the beefy stew of blogs posted in between, the big G always seems to have some big new feature, product, or service up its sleeve — so many, in fact, that it’s easy to lose track and forget about a few things along the way.

That’s precisely what I discovered when I slogged back through the past year’s worth of Google revelations. Amidst all the now-familiar fare was a small handful of leftover items — little this-and-thats mentioned as part of broader announcements and then never brought up again. They’re things we heard about, talked about, then largely forgot about.

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