[eCa]

> Third, and lastly, Google is sending a strong signal to the market that it will have no mercy of killing whatever product it doesn’t think it’s going well.

They have been doing that for years. I'm not sure if anything but Search and Gmail are safe from the axe. They'll probably not end-of-life Maps or G+, but almost anything else should probably be treated as a beta that can be removed at will.

[mkr-hn]

I read a post a while back where someone theorized that Google owns enough fiber to make YouTube inexpensive to run, and it's deeply embedded in the minds of most web users.