Hello was not a site. It was a picture sharing program where you could easily show a lot of pictures at once to the person you were chatting with. Like generating 20 thumbnails of pictures you choose, and while you chat you could see what the other party was looking at. (and they could see what you were looking at).
It was like having a multiuser Picasa viewer, where you could invite someone to see your pics in picasa. No more using yahoo instant messenger to send a file a time, etc.
I have no idea why Google bought it, then canceled it. It obviously needed some server side help to run because once it was done, it was done. Maybe they couldn't figure out a way to make money with it? I don't know.
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