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Re:RIP Google Reader by vkou on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:55PM (#26583964)
> Because before Google Reader was cancelled Google was known for not cancelling anything

Web Accelerator, Wave, Google Video immediately spring to mind, but there's a few dozen smaller services that were all cancelled before Reader was.

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Re:RIP Google Reader by bluedays on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:42PM (#26586550)
I would argue that all of those were failures, so there was no reason to keep using them. So I guess the better argument is that at this time Google wasn’t known for cancelling successful products
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Re:RIP Google Reader by vkou on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:43PM (#26587591)
Reader was a failure in the commercial sense, though. No good path towards monetization, no positive synergy with other products, too much technical debt that nobody wanted to work on.
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