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Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by matt4077 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:37PM (#18455766)
> every month we have a new product/service of Google being deprecated

Indeed! Just ~~~last month~~~ 62 months ago they shut down Reader.

(I see that you're hedging with the reference to Maps. But I'd love if this time, we wouldn't make a single event a 10-year talking point)

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Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by llampx on Thursday November 15, 2018 @01:55PM (#18462105)
Google Reader is like "the one that got away" because the landscape changed so fundamentally with it, that no other product could take its place.

If Google had killed Gmail we would still have Yahoo mail and Hotmail and what not. We would bitch and moan but life would go on. Reader was... different.

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Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by pkroll on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:36AM (#18460031)
That one hurt, but "single event" is a little off. Check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon... (nearly a hundred in 12 years, is the answer to the question "how many then?")
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Re:Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud by ldiracdelta on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:44PM (#18456920)
Google Reader still hurts.
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