Comment by ariwilson

This is a tired meme given that the number of Google services closed has been mostly going down since 2013. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...

  2006 3
  2007 4
  2008 5
  2009 7
  2010 4
  2011 16
  2012 19
  2013 11
  2014 7
  2015 6
  2016 11 (actually 8 if you don't count things that got merged into other things)
  2017 4
  2018 2