Google Gesture Search allowed users to search contacts, applications, settings, music, and bookmark on their Android device by drawing letters or numbers onto the screen. Launched March 3, 2010; shut down January 1, 2017 — it lived 6 years. One of 11 Google products killed in 2017. Google Gesture Search was released on March 3, 2010 as a new application for the Android Eclair operating system and above, which enabled users to search their phone's contacts, bookmarks, applications and music simply by scribbling out letters with their finger. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).