That rather shortsighted. All companies, as well as governments, eventually hit financial trouble, and some day fail.

Google has shut down many services and "broke the internet" before - what they essentially did with Reader.

Even if it takes 100 years, we don't want the internet archives to be broken.

I think it's shortsighted to design your architecture for Google failing as a company. Google will be around far longer than either of us.

I'm not sure what you mean about Reader though?

Is it? Google does not seem to be spending any resources on improving the product and they recently disabled the ability to show ads in your feed (which is presumably the whole reason Google got into this business in the first place).