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> gigantic money loser

That's not the right metric to use. Google has a long history of using software and services as a weapon to prevent competitors from entering a market, or to control a market even if it's not immediately/directly profitable.

Once it's no more useful it's suddenly dropped, e.g. Google Reader.

Oh, hello golang!




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