[brazzledazzle]

I think if they demonstrate that they dogfood it the way Amazon does it will go a long way. Based on talks I've seen I know some internal teams use it (or at least did when it was free for them).

[boulos]

We don't talk about our own usage a lot, because we mostly care about customers (like Quizlet!) talking about their usage in their own terms. However, I personally worked with Chrome's Clusterfuzz team when we launched Preemptible VMs (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/05/Introducing-Pre...) and they're still there today.

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine (and launched Preemptible VMs).

[profeta]

they also used google reader for gmail (it was integrated on the top of the inbox). it didn't stop them from killing it.

[boulos]

This has been said a lot, but:

- Reader wasn't a product that was explicitly bringing in lots of revenue, Cloud is (and we just hired Diane to run the business).

- Lots of us regret that Reader was shut down ;).

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.

[profeta]

The point is not the entire product. Everyone is afraid that the product will still be around, but the feature that drove them to it will be killed.

and there is no way you can disprove that fear from google products. You guys do that even with search.