> I'm not familiar with this one, but building your infrastructure on small Google APIs is starting to seem foolish.

Maybe you should be familiar, this isn't a Google API, it came through an acquisition and would have been shut down a long time ago if the government didn't mandate them to keep it available. Anyone who knew anything about this API already knew that this was just a matter of time.

Frankly you'd be an idiot to build a business on top of Google services anymore. Just can't rely on anything being around for however long.

One day Google will shutdown Gmail.

Finally then everyone will learn to ignore their non-Advertising services. It's for the best!

This has crossed my mind. I’m a G Suite customer (paid Google docs / gmail etc) and Google makes me nervous the way they shut things down constantly.

GSuite is a perfect subscription business model; they are giving you stuff you will probably never need or use along side something you were already using for free. The cost of a single account is just about small enough to be negligible for a business customer.

This is enough to give me confidence that it isn't going to be shut down.

Wave would have made a nice additional to that suite. I miss Google Wave.

I've built 3 projects that relied on Google services/APIs; none of them exist anymore. I will never build another Google based product as long as I live.

It’s paid. I’ve never heard of Google shutting down paid services.

The post we're commenting on right now is about Google shutting down a paid service

google site search, but i'm sure there have been some others.