> Paid nothing for. People pay everyday with their data. If it was truly a free service that provided no benefit to Google do you think they'd keep running it?

> Paid nothing for. People pay everyday with their data. If it was truly a free service that provided no benefit to Google do you think they'd keep running it? They definitely have no aversion to shutting shit down. I guarantee the only reason they really shutdown google plus was because they weren't getting as much datamining out of it as they wanted.