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There are two classes of Google products: ones that are small user applications, and ones that are core infrastructure internally and externally. As far as I know, only the former have a reputation for being EOLed.

DNS is the latter. Google’s RSS reader was the former.

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The future is uncertain. Google has a history of canceling services and gives no signs of changing their behavior. Even if they made public acknowledgments hand waving “oh it’s these services not those other ones”, why would I fee any better? Google needs to spend a lot of time building trust. They don’t have it.

Any service they have Enterprise contracts for they are extremely unlikely to shut down.

Is there any assurance? Why would anyone trust FAANGs?

I have a coworker who is angry that Nissin Original Cup of Noodles eliminated the dried pea that was in the ramen. I think that happened a decade ago.

Very tragic, but things change. The nerd rage over Google Reader, etc is similar.

Just a few months ago there was a leaked email from Google execs talking about how Google Cloud needed to start making more money or it would be shuttered within a few years.

It’s pretty simple really. Google acts like a VC — place lots of bets on new projects in the hope that they’ll blow up and either a) start making adwords-scale profits or b) markedly increase adwords profits. Projects that don’t do either of those things are killed. The question is: Does 8.8.8.8 markedly increase adwords profit?

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