- Google search is no longer displaying play buttons on podcasts linking to Google Podcasts.
- The ability to listen to podcasts directly from Search results is now gone.
- The Google Podcasts app hasn’t been updated in months.
Google is known for killing off many of its products. In fact, it’s shutting one down today — Stadia. And it looks like Google Podcasts could be headed in the same direction soon.
Google introduced the Google Podcasts app back in 2018. The neat thing about the app is it allowed listeners to look up and listen to individual podcast episodes straight from Search. It also let you continue the same episode on various devices from the app or Search.