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List of all the projects Killed by Google
- benjaminjosephw 5y agoIt would be really interesting to know how many of these products have squeezed competitors out of the market before being axed. More than a few I bet.
- rudian 5y agoThe good part is that those who didn't close shop found insane amounts of people googling them the day of the announcement. The many Reader replacements are still thriving thanks to the Reader popularity.
- mikewarot 5y agoRIP Reader and Picasa you're still missed.
- kunagi7 5y agoThe death of Google Reader was quite a blow. Luckily enough they let you export your feeds. After that, I moved to fluxreader and inoreader and never looked back. Shortly after that I stopped using my google account completely. Google usually kills their products after a short time... Even if other companies recreate them and are successful at it.
- jsnell 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24694459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24694459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19386862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19386862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513030
- javitury 5y agoShould also include - Polymer 1 - Polymer 2 (not backwards compatible) - Polymer 3 (not backwards compatible) And maybe Lit-Element if you consider it was replaced by "Lit"
- vermooten 5y agonever a day goes by without my mourning Google Reader
- codyswann 5y agoI don't know if putting AngularJS on there is accurate. It was deprecated in favor of Angular, which is a re-write of AngularJS.
- bobbydreamer 5y agoIt also had Tez which was rebranded
- bobbydreamer 5y agoThey should add Google Search Pre-2015. That's was really good.
- swiley 5y agoI think many people here are using duckduckgo and may have missed the decline.