Google Drive

The only issue I would have with it, is using it for 3 years and then Google decides to shut it down. They do that stuff all the time.

My fear. Services discontinued (some with little or no warning) since 2011 only.

Discontinued in 2011

Google Buzz â€" social networking service integrated with Gmail service allowing users to share updates, photos, videos, and more at once. It let users make conversations about things they found interesting. It was released on February 9, 2010. Discontinued by end of 2011.

Google PowerMeter â€" free energy monitoring tool that allows you to view your home's energy consumption from anywhere online. Discontinued on September 16, 2011.

Real Estate â€" Real estate listings in Google Maps, launched in July 2009 and discontinued February 10, 2011.

Google Directory â€" Collection of links arranged into hierarchical subcategories. The links and their categorization were from the Open Directory Project, but were sorted using PageRank. It was closed on July 20, 2011.

Squared â€" creates tables of information about a subject from unstructured data. Discontinued September 2011.

Notebook â€" web clipping application for saving online research. It is no longer supported by Google, and was replaced with Google Docs. The tool permits users to clip text, images, and links from pages while browsing, save them online, access them from any computer, and share them with others. Google stopped development on Notebook and no longer accepts sign-ups. While old users can still access their notebooks, newcomers are offered to try other services such as Google Docs and Google Bookmarks. Discontinued September 2011, data exported to Google Docs by July 2012.

Google Sets â€" Generates a list of items when users enter a few examples. For example, entering "Green, Purple, Red" emits the list "Green, Purple, Red, Blue, Black, White, Yellow, Orange, Brown." Described in its 2003 patent filing by creators Simon Tong and Jeff Dean as "an inside peek at how Google groups keywords by concept," it was discontinued in mid-2011.

Google Pack â€" Collection of applications â€" some Google-created (including Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Google Talk, and Google Chrome), some not. (Supported Windows XP, Vista, 7). Discontinued on September 2, 2011.

Google Fast Flip â€" Online news aggregator that mimicked the experience of flicking through a newspaper or magazine, allowing visual search of stories in manner similar to microfiche. Discontinued September 6, 2011.
Desktop (Mac OS X, Windows 2000 SP3+, XP, Vista, 7, Linux): Desktop search application that indexes emails, documents, music, photos, chats, Web history and other files. It allowed the installation of Google Gadgets. Discontinued on September 14, 2011.

Google Image Labeler â€" game that induced participants to submit valid descriptions (labels) of images in the web, in order to later improve Image Search. Discontinued on September 16, 2011.

Aardvark â€" Social search utility which allowed people to ask and answer questions within their social networks. It useed people's claimed expertise to match askers with good answerers. Discontinued on September 30, 2011.

Discontinued in 2012

Google Apps Standard Edition - Free. On December 6, 2012, Google discontinued the Google apps standard edition, which was previously downgraded with features like maximum 10 users.

Google Code Search â€" Search engine for programming code found on the Internet. Shut down on January 15, 2012.

Google Health â€" allows a user to store, manage and share all of his/her health and wellness information in one central place. Development ceased June 24, 2011; accessible until January 1, 2012; data available for download until January 1, 2013.

Google Website Optimizer â€" was a free website testing and optimization tool, allows a user to increase the value of his/her existing websites and traffic. Discontinued on August 1, 2012.

TV Ads â€" Method to place advertising on TV networks. Launched in 2007, the product was discontinued on August 30, 2012, with all remaining active campaigns ending December 16, 2012.

Google Friend Connect â€" an online service that allowed website and blog owners to add social features to their websites. Discontinued on March 1, 2012, and replaced by Google+'s pages and off-site Page badges.

Google Insights for Search â€" Google Insights for Search was a service by Google similar to Google Trends, providing insights into the search terms people have been entering into the Google search engine. Google Insights for Search has been discontinued since September 27, 2012 by Google and Now Google Insights has merged in Google Trends.

Knol â€" service that enabled subject experts and other users to write authoritative articles related to various topics. Content were not accessible after October 1, 2012.

Google Wave â€" Online communication and Collaborative real-time editor tool using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Development ceased on August 4, 2010. This product support is no longer available [turned off completely on April 30, 2012 by Google].

Picnik â€" online photo editor. Most features and effects have been moved to the Google+ photo manager. Closed on April 19, 2012.

Discontinued in 2013

Google Building Maker â€" web based building and editing tool to create 3D buildings for Google Earth. Retired on June 4, 2013.

Meebo â€" Create a profile and advertise on the network. Discontinued on June 6, 2013

Google Reader â€" web-based news aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds. It let users search, import and subscribe to feeds. The service also embedded audio enclosures in the page. Reader retired on July 1, 2013.

Google Latitude â€" mobile geolocation tool that lets friends know where users are via Google Maps. It was retired on August 9, 2013, with some of its functionality rolled into Google+.

Google Talk â€" Desktop instant messaging service that provided both text and voice communication. Replaced May 15, 2013 by Google Hangouts.

SMS â€" mobile phone short message service offered by Google in several countries, including the USA, Japan, Canada, India, Pakistan and China and formerly the UK, Germany and Spain. It allows search queries to be sent as a text message. The results were sent as a reply, with no premium charge for the service. It was turned off May 10, 2013.

iGoogle (was Google Personalized Homepage) â€" Customizable homepage, which can contain Web feeds and Google Gadgets, launched in May 2005. It was renamed to iGoogle on April 30, 2007 (was used internally by Google). iGoogle was discontinued on November 1, 2013.

My Maps, GIS tools for Google Maps

Discontinued in 2014

Google Schemer - A social search to find local activities to do at home and around the world. Google Schemer was discontinued on February 7, 2014.

Google Notifier - Alerted users to new messages in their Gmail account. (Supported Mac OS X, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.) Google Notifier has been discontinued since January 31.

YouTube My Speed. Discontinued January 2014. Replaced by Google Video Quality Report

Orkut - A social networking website. Will be discontinued on September 30, 2014. No new accounts can be created starting July 2014.

QuickOffice - A productivity suite for mobile devices. Technology implemented into Google Drive, and discontinued as a standalone app on June 2014.