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konne88 | 3 years ago

"One can’t imagine flagship products like Search or Books ever being shut down."

I can totally imagine Books being shut down.

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serial_dev|3 years ago

How can you NOT imagine Books being shut down?

esrauch|3 years ago

Books was looking way bigger in 2011; I think Google decided it wasn't the copyright battle worth having.

pas|3 years ago

how is Books a flagship product? :D

RichEO|3 years ago

In 2013, it seemed that Google intended to expanding its online search dominance into the real world by cataloguing books, and then giving users access to the contents of books in search results.

They did some of that, but it didn't pan out as successfully as was imagined.