There have been a lot of words written on the internet about the products and services Google has killed off. There is almost certainly a service or a piece of hardware Google sent to the grave that meaningfully affected you. It doesn’t kill off anything without what it thinks is a good reason. Google simply has more products or kills them before they can lose enough money to affect the bottom line. That’s the thing: Google may have different reasons for halting different products, but one thing in common every time is a consideration for the bottom line. Google is not a charity and exists only to make as much money as it can.

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