Ask Slashdot: Which Google Project Didn't Deserve To Die?

Nerval's Lobster writes "When Google announced the shutdown of Google Reader, its popular RSS reader, it sparked significant outrage across the Web. While one could argue that RSS readers have declined in popularity over the past few years (in fact, that was Google's stated reason for killing it), they remain a useful tool for many people who want to collect their Web content—articles, blog postings, and the like—in one convenient place. (Fortunately for them, there exist any number of alternative RSS readers, some of which offer even more features than Google Reader.) This wasn't the first time that Google announced a project's imminent demise, and it certainly won't be the last: Google Buzz, Google Health, Google Wave, Google Labs, and other software platforms all ended up in the dustbin of tech history. So here's the question: of all those projects, which didn't deserve the axe? If you had a choice, which would you bring back?"

Comments

Lots of choices

[recoiledsnake]

Here are some of the ones that got killed by Google.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/2013/03/google_reader_joins_graveyard_of_dead_google_products.html

And now Google Drive is down...

[mystikkman]

In other news Google Drive is down. Most Chromebooks are rendered useless because of paltry local storage and reliance on the Google Cloud for storing important stuff.

http://www.slashgear.com/google-investigating-google-drive-downtime-18274444/

Re:support for odf in Google Docs

[serviscope_minor]

Support for the open document standard (.odf etc.) in Google Docs should never have been removed

How so? I can still download documents as ODT. I might be missing something since I don't use google docs all that much.