From what I've heard, Google's product life cycle is basically: 1. Google launches a new product, which gets promotions for everyone involved because launching

From what I've heard, Google's product life cycle is basically: 1. Google launches a new product, which gets promotions for everyone involved because launching new products is what the review and promotions process is optimized for. 2. Nobody maintains the product because that's not how you get promoted. 3. The product is discontinued. Sometimes they'll have similar products that do similar things replace each other. So I wonder if anyone at Google secretly uses this site as a source of ideas for new products to try and launch.