Google in Your Life

Every time Google pull the plug on one of their products, a lot of Google users get very uncertain about the soundness of their commitment to Google. Google's enemies are quick to take advantage of that uncertainty and, together, frustrated fans and eager enemies develop a strange vision of a company who will pull the plug on even the most healthy and beloved products if it will even remotely benefit its twisted schemes. Interestingly, this view of Google is a reaction to an equally unrealistic view of Google as a through and through altruistic organisation which basically exists to give consumers for free what other companies want to charge them for. Google is indeed a very unusual company - not least because it does in fact provide tons of value for free. But it is still a company and what goes on at Google is almost certainly much less dramatic than the worn out caricature I mentioned above. Like any other clever company in a very competitive field of business they have to f