On Wednesday, Google announced not just its first round of job-cuts but also the shutdown of six services, which have not contributed to the Google brand in recent times.

The company has released a number of posts on official Google blogs announcing the termination, discontinuation of development, or restriction of access to six products, which include - Google Notebooks, Google Video, Google Catalogs, Google Mashup Editor, Dodgeball, and Jaiku.

While the imminent stagnation of Google Notebook due to its lack of sufficient developers called for its shutting down, Google Video dug its grave in 2006 when it bought YouTube.

Meanwhile, Google Catalog Search is getting the chop because its “demonstration” of OCR technology ultimately made it in to Google Book Search; and Google Mashup Editor, never having made it out of private beta, is being done away with “in favor of the more powerful App Engine.”

Google’s once-popular social/geolocation experiment, Dodgeball, is getting the ax because it has been displaced by Twitter to a great extent. Lastly, Jaiku, though it may presently live on with support from a “volunteer team” of Google employees, is getting ported to the Google App Engine, and thus would be released as open source.

Some of the other blogs – like TechCrunch and Center Networks - are saying that a couple of new projects could meet the same fate as the axed Google products. Included in this list are Knol, Google’s Wikipedia competitor, which never caught on; and Grand Central, the advanced telecom service!