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benjaminjosephw
It would be really interesting to know how many of these products have squeezed competitors out of the market before being axed. More than a few I bet.
rudian
The good part is that those who didn't close shop found insane amounts of people googling them the day of the announcement. The many Reader replacements are still thriving thanks to the Reader popularity.
mikewarot
RIP Reader and Picasa you're still missed.
kunagi7
The death of Google Reader was quite a blow. Luckily enough they let you export your feeds. After that, I moved to fluxreader and inoreader and never looked back.

Shortly after that I stopped using my google account completely. Google usually kills their products after a short time... Even if other companies recreate them and are successful at it.

javitury
Should also include

  - Polymer 1

  - Polymer 2 (not backwards compatible)

  - Polymer 3 (not backwards compatible)
And maybe Lit-Element if you consider it was replaced by "Lit"
vermooten
never a day goes by without my mourning Google Reader
codyswann
I don't know if putting AngularJS on there is accurate. It was deprecated in favor of Angular, which is a re-write of AngularJS.
bobbydreamer
They should add Google Search Pre-2015. That's was really good.
swiley
I think many people here are using duckduckgo and may have missed the decline.