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Google only kills unsuccessful projects. Gitlab is an obvious successful project.

• dgellow 7y ago
  Google Reader was clearly successful.
  • shawabawa3 7y ago
    Was it? I've never met or heard of anyone using it except on Hacker News I also doubt it made any revenue
  • manigandham 7y ago
    It absolutely wasn't. It was completely insignificant in all respects to a company of that size. It also has had better alternatives within months of its demise to the point that it's rather surprising people are still missing it.
• aquaticsunset 7y ago
  Commercially unsuccessful projects* There’s a big difference to Google execs between technological and commercial success. It must be very, very interesting to be a fly on the wall of their high level product management meetings.