A much bigger concern for me would be that this product is not and will never be core to google’s business. Will it be around a year from now? Will be around but utterly neglected as whatever opaque process inside google causes it to lose interest in yet another project?
I’d rather buy recruiting software from a company in the recruiting software business.
I think it depends. Is this an internal tool they decided to monetize? If they're dogfooding it's much less likely they'll cancel it
I think it's just as likely. Another team will create a different product doing the same thing in a different way and they will now dogfood that new one.
If anything they will just change it up and disappoint people who liked it just the way it was.
As they are doing with GMail.
They did create “Inbox” to do the same thing as GMail (email) in a different way... But they’re killing Inbox and just making changes to GMail.
Or if the tool competes with another. I think Reader was killed mainly because it competed with Google Plus.
In general, I've noticed many sites now lack RSS feeds - probably because it's better to have users perpetually engaged than give a definitive list of articles that can be read in 1 go.