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Songaza will shut down, even if they say they won't.

• alttab 12y ago
  Ooooh a discordant view! How exciting. Can you elaborate?
  • b2themax 12y ago
    Seems like an aqui-hire.
  • tyrelb 12y ago
    Most acquisitions that google goes through they shut-down, unless it's really core (like Docs). Songza will be shut down, but the team will join Play or whatever...
    • eru 12y ago
      Like Docs, Maps, blogger and youtube?
      • lmm 12y ago
        Docs was google's only docs service, and subsequent acquisitions have been squashed into it (e.g. etherpad). Maps is google's only maps service. Blogger was more-or-less google's only blog service until recently, and I wouldn't count on it surviving much longer in the age of google+. Youtube happened the other way around, in that google killed google video and merged it into youtube. Is play music more established than songza? I think yes, and google is unlikely to maintain both of them in parallel.
    • giarc 12y ago
      I see this as similar to Waze acquisition. Waze continues to operate to this day.
      • jcromartie 12y ago
        Waze is an important data source for traffic in Google Maps. They didn't want to lose that data by killing the Waze app.