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The only Google products that are guaranteed to stick around for the long term are Search and Gmail, and that's been pretty clear to see for the past decade. Th

The only Google products that are guaranteed to stick around for the long term are Search and Gmail, and that's been pretty clear to see for the past decade. There's no good reason to get invested in any of their services with how often they pop up and how soon after they're shut down.

mrkrwtsn 11y ago
And Android, all of the ad stack, analytics (it gives google a lot of data), chrome, maps, docs, drive (in some form), calendar, app engine, hangouts (part of gmail). There are tons of products that are both successful, and are tied to core things google wants to be good at.
- CaptSpify 11y ago
  Isn't Google trying to merge Android into ChromeOS?
  - bduerst 11y ago
    ChromeOS is open sourced and will still be available for some time, but yeah, they're merging the two. Ubiquity between Android and desktop/laptops would be great.
- avn2109 11y ago
  Also youtube.
sliverstorm 11y ago
The only product really guaranteed to stick around is Search. Things closely wedded to Search (GMail, Android, Maps) are fairly safe bets.
- jakeogh 11y ago
  Personally, I'll be happy when they close Google Groups.
  - pjc50 11y ago
    Groups is the last resting place of the USENET archive. Deleting it would be a tremendous loss!
    - jakeogh 11y ago
      I bet that's what they do. Just like Google Video. Maybe throw a "oops we are just archiving it!" in before they finally drop the axe. Note how it's JS interface makes it difficult to archive now. Is that because HTML fallback on USENET would be too hard for the googlemachine? The sooner the better.