Weekend poll: Which dead Google app or service do you miss the most?
Google's habit of killing its products is a meme by this point. Many of them were short-lived, but the company has been known to throw out widely used and much-loved services years after they debut and have accrued a significant following. While most of us probably didn't even realize there was a Google Shopping app when news of its demise landed last week, the Google graveyard is massive, and I bet there's at least one app or service you miss.
Google's tendency to kill even successful products has led some of us (including myself) to be wary of the company's more recent offerings, and even diversify beyond a reliance on Google's existing products. Recent products like the cloud game-streaming service Stadia, which Google claims to be committed to, have both developers and customers worried about its future — Google's even stopped making in-house games for Stadia, so how much can we trust it to stick around? Whether or not these sorts of worries are really supported by current evidence, Google's track record speaks for itself.