I get it. Google has a lot of killed/closed products. But that’s kind of their MO. They try a lot of things. Sometimes they work (Gmail was an experiment at one point), but they often don’t.

Making fun of their killed products is a favorite HN past time, but what would you have them do? Just sit back and not try to make new things? Or keep zombie projects alive, but unmaintained just because a few of us find it really helpful?

Those are the projects I find the saddest. The ones that would have been a good product for a smaller company (or was a smaller company that was acquired), but that isn’t profitable enough at “Google scale” to keep throwing money at.

I get it. Google kills a lot of products that early adopters like. Google Reader was painful to lose at the time. But how many RSS feeds do you now follow?

Let’s just evaluate this new project on its own merits. Do you find it helpful or not — without thinking too much about Googles track record. If this way of using AI is helpful (and I’m very hopeful), then either Google will keep it, or this is the POC a small startup will use to keep something like this around. If it fails, then at least we’ll all have learned something.