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Keen
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A Google experiment that used machine learning to discover web content around personal interests, with collections users could curate and share.
- Operator at shutdown
- Google Company source
- Launched
- 18 Jun 2020Launch source
- Discontinued
- 24 Mar 2024Official shutdown notice
- Lifespan
- 3 years 9 months
How it ended
Google confirms that StayKeen.com shut down on March 24, 2024. The website and app became inaccessible, and all collections and user content were deleted.
Sources and verification
- Shutdown
- The current first-party notice explicitly confirms a completed shutdown on March 24, 2024. This is the actual service-end day, not an inferred proxy. The original announcement day, cutoff hour and time zone are unspecified. This record covers the complete Keen discovery-and-curation service, not Google Search or other recommendation systems. No product-period operating location was verified. Official shutdown notice
- Dates checked
- Announced Unknown · Verified 2 Oct 2026
- AI functionality
- AI functionality source
- Launch
- Co-founder CJ Adams introduced Keen on June 18, 2020 as an available web and Android app created by a small Google Area 120 team with Google PAIR.