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It would still have to be maintained so those resources are better used elsewhere. Nobody wants to work on products that aren't getting much attention either. For Google, I imagine it's about focusing on a few things that have massive potential (to really win) and they simply do not find it worthwhile spending more resources on selling it off.

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> it's about focusing on a few things that have massive potential (to really win)

If you has to focus in order to success, you are already on the edge of fail. Remember Gmail? It was a 20% time casual product.[1]

[1]: http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html

What, like say Apple? A company renowned for focusing on doing a small number of things well.

And what was the first thing Larry Page did when he took over as Google CEO? Start hacking away at projects that were going nowhere to focus on a smaller number of key areas.

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