Needlebase was a point-and-click tool for extracting, sorting and visualizing data from across pages around the web. Launched April 1, 2011; shut down June 1, 2012 — it lived 1 year. One of 23 Google products killed in 2012. https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/20/google-trims-the-fat/ Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).