What would happen if they closed any of those projects tomorrow? How would one recover the data or justify the time investment? Things like search and maps are

What would happen if they closed any of those projects tomorrow? How would one recover the data or justify the time investment? Things like search and maps are awesome, but their strength is that they are passively used. I'd hate to see them disappear, but it wouldn't harm me if they did, and something else would eventually fill the void. Trusting Google with data or relying on their APIs is another thing entirely. Maybe they should focus on the area of passively consumed information, which they've proven they excel at.