[georgewfraser]

This kinda tells you everything about the culture of Google:

> Sadly, despite the team’s groundbreaking technical achievements over the last 9 years — ... — the road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped.

Focus is on the technical achievements, never mind if anyone ever used it.

[remus]

Surely that's kind of the point of X and moonshot projects? If they weren't taking on projects that required large scale, risky technical innovation then they'd just be...a normal company?