Why Google Keeps Killing Products You Love
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Google has shut down more than 280 products.
Google Reader. Stadia. Inbox. Hangouts. Allo. Podcasts. Domains.
Each one had users who depended on it. Some people built workflows around them. Some people paid real money for them. And then, one by one, Google killed them.
This video is about the Google graveyard — and why Google keeps shutting down products people love.
But this is not just a story about discontinued apps. It is a story about trust, digital ownership, and what happens when a company becomes so large that even millions of users are no longer enough.
From Google Reader’s shutdown in 2013 to the collapse of Stadia, Google has taught users the same lesson again and again:
If you depend on a product you do not control, it can disappear.
So why does Google keep doing this?
The answer is not just bad luck. It is structural.
Watch until the end, because the real reason Google keeps killing beloved products says a lot about the future of the internet — and why more people are moving toward self-hosting, open-source tools, and infrastructure they actually control.
Drop a comment: which Google product hurt the most when it died?
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