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What a clueless site. They rank Chrome OS's chances as 'Sketchy' - clearly they have no idea what's going on in the education market right now. They also included a bunch of things shut down ages ago to pad the numbers.

> They also included a bunch of things shut down ages ago to pad the numbers.

Why to pad the numbers? Didn't they just include them because it's the purpose of their site?

Then why not include the Chromecast, Google Drive, or Gmail?

it's all user-submitted so ask yourself you dumb idiot.

At least Google has been good (so far) about providing plenty of warning when shutting down existing services. Can't say the same about $RANDOM_STARTUP, where the notice period is often "end of the current month".

They also let users take their data out of their services and have been making good strides in that regard with Google takeout.

At first I thought it might be an useful site providing all annoucements and warnings in one place.

But the copy on this website sounds like a lame attempt on black PR. Especially the part "Don't buy before they die!" made me cringe. Am I supposed to buy after they die or what?

Also those descriptions that are supposed to be substantiations of the rank often lack... well... substance.

Not to mention the fact that the page lists something like 10% of Google services and looks pale compared to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Google_services http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_se...

My outlook for this page: Days numbered.

Google shuts down one service any everyone thinks all google products are on death row.

reader had to be shut down due to the conflict of being a system where both google and there content creators were not getting money from ads

Do you consider Reader, Buzz, Wave, and iGoogle all part of one service? How about the APIs they've shut down / blocked / deprecated?

I agree that this site is sensationalistic. But your comment is just as bad on the other side of the aisle.

Did YC shutdown yet? It sure seems a lot of them YC companies fail, so...

The point of this exercise isn't to suggest that Google is failing or on the verge of death itself (and I don't think many respectable people would make those claims). It just mocks the fact that they inevitably shut down a good portion of the (typically free) services they offer, and provides some warning and insight for people who are considering using one of these services in the long term.

Fair enough, I misinterpreted it.

Why the description on Orkut is "dajlfskdjflas"? Is it wrong or it's a joke I don't get it?

"and alloiwng".

Come on; a typo in the main jumbotron.

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