Google is trying something new on the search feed
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if they add support for forums I might even consider using it, but if it’s just reddit, twitter, tiktok or whatever then it’s not really all that useful
This will be saving you typing in +reddit +stackspace on searches. Still the same results.
Wish they’d include a -pinterest option.
-site:pinterest.*seems to work for me.
Google does not really offer a space where people can come together to create communities or discussion threads. However, with the introduction of Perspectives, it may do so later.
So—despite the dumbass title (article’s fault, not OP’s)—explicitly not an alternative to Reddit, where literally the whole point is to create communities and discussion threads.
I do love the “it may do so later” part. It reads like the journalist was writing this via speech-to-text from the shower, just rambling off whatever thoughts came to mind.
Google’s infamous graveyard makes it seem like they’re just a bored university student that can’t ever finish its side projects.
Numerous employees and former employees have written extensively on this. The metrics employees are evaluated on for raises and promotions highly encourages people to start new projects and move on from them before they are complete, and significantly disincentivises anyone from doing upkeep or bug fixes.
Basically if you aren’t constantly working on making the “next big thing” you are seen as someone who is negative, stuck in the past, inflexible, and not a contributing team player.
It sounds pretty toxic tbh.
That sounds awful lol. I’m in university right now and have neglected work on any projects. I finally found something of a passion in retro game reverse engineering a few months ago and have obsessed over it. It’s only one game I’m reversing though so it’s likely to take me years and years before I can release anything resembling something playable.
You’ve now scared me into maybe working on other things too…I wonder if related projects count? A website for the project, developer tools, documentation, etc.
I give it a year before it’s shut down. This is Google, after all.
It’ll be folded into some sort of AI thingy within a year, for sure.
AI is this year’s blockchain.
Start the clock. https://gcemetery.co/google-product-lifespan/
!remindme 1 yr
oh wait
I wonder if bots like that are possible in the fediverse?
I believe they 100% are but i have no idea how the Lemmy or Kbin APIs are
@artisanrox @lostwonder @Thalestr Well someone needs to build this ASAP. I miss it.
Man, deleting my reminders felt almost as final as deleting the account itself
A newer way to harvest data for them, I’m sure.
I maintain the only reason Google ever shut any product down was because they weren’t able to extract useful data from it fast enough. It’s the only reason any of their products exist.
Disagree
For many of the services they shut down, they accomplished what they wanted.
Sometimes, the purpose isn’t to create a shiny new product people enjoy and will pay for
Sometimes, the purpose is to create competition for a product you don’t like, make sure they fail by having a decent competing offering, and then shutting the offering down when the threat of competition has passed
Google + being a prime example? /s
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Google, a company you can trust. A company that thought the phrase ‘Don’t be evil’ didn’t fit anymore.
It’s still in their code of conduct, though. Got moved to the bottom.
Ahh ok that makes me feel better
I remember when they took it off. They probably brought it back because it was giving them a bad image.
I remember people saying that too. Then someone on reddit pointed out that they had moved it to the bottom quietly before the whole rexxit thing. Not sure how to interpret it being removed, added back and moved discretely. But as they say in Camp Cretaceous, “at least…” it’s in there somewhere.
I looked for more info, and you’re right. Strange, because I can remember it clearly. Was I a victim of the mandela effect?
Nah, no Mandela effect here. Just businesses being sneaky about appearing honest.
They never took it off. That was an Internet meme. They just never did.
Well yeah, if they were truly going to follow the “don’t be evil” motto they’d have to give up capitalism, which ain’t gonna happen.
These are just Lenses or whatever, smaller search engines had them for ages. I’m still waiting for DuckDuckGo to add them, strange that even Google was faster than them
Ah yes, cause the problem by promoting SEO websites with machine generated content, then sell the solution! Splendid!
Microsoft Antivirus, second generation.
Seems more like an alternative to TikTok no?
I would trust a google product any further than I could throw a single one of their servers. Well except for gmail. That one has been around a while.
It’s crazy they haven’t done this years ago. Hopefully it doesn’t go anywhere and as pointless as Google plus or buzz or whatever
This is the awesomest thing I’ve seen since Google Wave!
Great, now 4chan can turn search results racist too.
Haha, wonder what Google will do.
Great, now 4chan can turn search results racist too.
This just sounds like Google with extra steps.
