Google is trying something new on the search feed
TWO YEARS LATER: Perspectives will be shut down …
Two years is too generous. 6 months later unofficially dropped support, 1 year later introduce some stupid redesign and some functionality that lowers user experience, and then 2 years later is merged with some other random Google service.
How long until Google gives up and shuts it down? Place yer bets!!!
I bet 3 upvotes and one Mastodon follow, it’s killed off in less then 5 years
I’ll be your third upvote. For less than 3.
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I knew this was going to be the top comment and I’m hereffor it!
If people are looking for alternatives that won’t be shut down, you… recommend they look to Google!? Ahahahahaha!
Seriously, the graveyard is pretty extensive: https://killedbygoogle.com/
Oh man, I knew there were a lot but I had no idea.
I remember when Google Wave was demo’ed to a live audience, there were audible ooohs and aaahs from the crowd. It was such a mindblowing idea 14 years ago, shame it never really got off the ground.
I’m still bitter that they killed Inbox. It was superior to Gmail in every way.
Guys we swear this time is different. We are totally going to stick with it
It’s real this time time, gais, promisssss
gigglesnort
“Google, thanks for inviting us all to the launch of perspectives! What are your goals with this new platform?”
“Perspectives? Perspectives on what? Who are you people? how did you get in here? Would you like to hear more about our new weekly meat-delivery service?”
“oh. . . . Uhm, sure. . . . Where is your product sourced from?”
“where is what sourced from?”
I give it a year before it’s shut down. This is Google, after all.
!remindme 1 yr
oh wait
@artisanrox @lostwonder @Thalestr Well someone needs to build this ASAP. I miss it.
I wonder if bots like that are possible in the fediverse?
Start the clock. https://gcemetery.co/google-product-lifespan/
It’ll be folded into some sort of AI thingy within a year, for sure.
AI is this year’s blockchain.
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.
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.
They never took it off. That was an Internet meme. They just never did.
Ahh ok that makes me feel better
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.
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
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Google + being a prime example? /s
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.
Neat, another service that Google will inexplicably kill in anywhere from 6 months to five years time.
And hiring people up to the last second. Last few hires probably barely have time to sell their old apartment and pack their families on the plane to California before being laid off.
Thanks I hate it.
Ah yes, cause the problem by promoting SEO websites with machine generated content, then sell the solution! Splendid!
Microsoft Antivirus, second generation.
Maybe I’m crazy, but I kinda doubt that this is likely to be killed off. It’s not it’s own platform like Reddit, it just takes content that’s more likely to be made by people from websites like Reddit, blogs, and other social media platforms and puts it all in one place.
But who knows with Google.That’s how I read it too. I guess there is a legitimate concern that Google is aiming to be the aggregated “front page of the internet” by providing the front end that people use to interact with the content they link to, but we shall see.
ah, like yahoo early 2000s!
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!
Good - the more traffic taken away from Reddit, the better in my opinion.
The majority of people that use Google don’t actually click through to the sources to read more, so if discussions are made more accessible directly in the search results, Reddit will likely notice the impact on their ad impressions
as much as i hate reddit as a corp, going to google is never a better alternative
They’ll kill it in 3…2….
I’ll stick with Kbin
Aaaaand… It’s gone…
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.
I gave up on gmail a couple years ago too. It was a LOT of work to migrate but there have been several stories since that make me glad I did it. Plus I now my gmail is nothing but spam and it’s satisfyingly like having a hotmail account just for spam 20 years ago.
Well I can’t “give up” on gmail. I work for a university and they use it. But to say gmail was a zillion times better than groupwise is an understatement.
