Right...if this "wood putting" strategy involves putting more wood behind fewer arrows, why do the number of arrows seem to be increasing, while favorite old reliable arrows are getting the shaft?
I think people have come to see Google almost as a government for the Internet in that they expect them to invest in the infrastructure simply for the greater good.
I think the rule of thumb is that any old product which doesn't firmly belong to one of the 5 units (Search/Knowledge, Chrome/Android/Google Apps, Identity/Google+, Advertising/Commerce and Youtube/Video) created after Page's 2011 company reorg is at danger of being shuttered. As long as a product belongs somewhere it has a better chance of staying alive, and one way to measure that is when the last update to it was.
