Google scraps mortgage comparison service The search giant launched a trial version of the service, called UK Compare Mortgages, in July last year. The website was suspended in September with a message saying it was being revamped, according to Money Marketing magazine. Google said it began scaling back the service in November and closed it this month. A spokesman for Google said: "We have been prioritising our product efforts, which means taking a hard look at products that have not been as successful as we would have hoped. We have closed down the mortgage search feature. Earlier this month European regulators requested Google to "pause" planned changes to simplify its privacy policy. The search giant had been planning to combine the 70 different privacy policies currently in force for its various services into a single document.