On the other side, Google doesn&#x27;t always follow this rule and I wouldn&#x27;t trust them much more to look after Twitter than Wall St.<p>Google has killed off (or left to rot, and then kill off) projects with <i>huge</i> user counts&#x2F;business outlooks in the past... remember Google Reader and Google Code?<p>Both could have kicked Feedly&#x27;s and Github&#x27;s&#x2F;SF&#x27;s asses multiple times over with a bit of investment, and Google basically let them rot until the backend of Google&#x27;s infrastructure changed too much to justify the needed adaptions on the projects.