Edit: Ah, here's the relevant blog post: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/03/a-new-home-for-goo...
[1]: https://opensource.google.com/projects/ganeti [2]: http://git.ganeti.org/?p=ganeti.git;a=summary
If Google has 50+ projects, then it's best to just have a page with multiple rows, each row is a category, and upon click can expand down to what #3 looks like. Or perhaps just GitHub README... it's pretty nice to read.
[1]: https://netflix.github.io/ [2]: http://twitter.github.io/ [3]: http://etsy.github.io/
For example, apparently AGPL licensed projects can't be used at Google: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/
Google no doubt has some proprietary code that they would like to keep proprietary. Also they probably have code under other licenses that they would like to remain under those particular licenses.
("page=6" means no 6x clicking "Show more", then it loads the whole page - interesting)
[1] https://opensource.google.com/projects/search?q=%20&language=r
[2] https://opensource.google.com/projects/search?q=%20&language=scalaOh, wait, no, they killed that one. In about a year....
Google has never shut down a major product. The closest thing they've come to is shutting down Google Reader, which was popular in the tech crowd but not mainstream in any way. That hurt. I totally agree with feeling the pain here.
They've never shut down anything of consequence besides this. Lots of little experimental things but nothing of real value.
They've also transitioned lots of things which does not count as shutting it down because you can still use the damn product. Latitude became Google+ Locations which became Maps Locations. They changed the name. Big whoop.
From an end user perspective the meme is a total joke. From a developer perspective there's a bit more truth but it's not as bad as the joke entails.
Sure they shut down some APIs but they give months or even year+ notices and pretty much universally always have an API with roughly equivalent functionality to move to. They rarely leave devs in the cold. It has happened but the vast majority of the time you just swap a few lines or a module and you are back up and running with probably better features.
Their PR has taken a hit because people don't like to do their research. They just shit on Google because it's fun.