Google Product Discontinuations

It's sad to see Google building a reputation of discontinuation more than building reputation of creating innovative products lately.

google failed at just about every product except selling ads, so I really doubt they will produce anything lasting in this area

Google just cant do anything right at this point.Every non core product is chopped/changed/rebranded/reintegrated until it dies.I feel behind it the minds of frenetic people with no empathy for their customers desperately scrambling to meet meaningless performance targets through the continual churn in each business area. People who wouldn't survive on their own merits for 5 minutes without vast budgets to throw into the abyss.I've used this product and I bet no

I'd suggest a 4th reason: Google has so much money and so many high-traffic properties that it can keep a poorly designed or unpolished product going for years, more than long enough for the original people who designed and built it to move on/up inside the company. Google will just push the product on the front page of some existing property to bump traffic, or get creators/developers to use it in hopes of boosting their existing search rankings, or give away the product for free

Let's be fair, Google does usually deliver a working product, even if they take it away just as everyone starts using and liking it.

Google is an organization run by engineers. They have no concept of marketing, or product placement or community engagement. They build for an audience of engineers, and if a wider cross-section of the population embraces a product that is purely by happenstance rather than design. As an enterprise they appear to have AD/HD, these products are launched and supported for awhile and then dropped. It is baked into the corporate culture, and I don't think it will or can change.

Google seems to often kill the great products they acquire.

Just like with any product ever, if the product is popular and produces value, it will stick around. Products come and go all the time, the difference being with Google that since they are so big and have countless products, the company doesn't go away when a particular one fails. Many products fail in this world, but often the company that made the product also goes away, so you have no one to complain about going forward. Google is easy to pick on in this regard.If this same product wa

Given Googles poor track record for creating new products in recent years this all makes sense.

It seems to be more complacency on the part of the Google. They became larger and larger without really delivering anything new. When was the last time they launched a major new product that truly had a lasting impact on the level of Search, Maps, Gmail, Android? It has been a while. Too many of their resources seem to be focused inwards on hypothetical questions like AI ethics that keep them from actually building things.