Notice that the shutdown of all these projects are happening on Larry's watch. Maybe it's a sharpened focus on ideas that "matter", but Google needs to try more

Notice that the shutdown of all these projects are happening on Larry's watch. Maybe it's a sharpened focus on ideas that "matter", but Google needs to try more things not less. From today's announcement about Q3 results, they still get a huge chunk of their income from advertising. They are dominant, but without another angle they are just asking to be disrupted.