Google is trying something new on the search feed
- Plume (She/Her) ( @Plume@beehaw.org ) English133•1 year ago
TWO YEARS LATER: Perspectives will be shut down …
- Yukito01 ( @Yukito01@beehaw.org ) English25•1 year ago
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.
- xavier666 ( @xavier666@lemm.ee ) English9•1 year ago
2 years later… “Good news! Perspective has now been organically merged with Google Search”
- DpwnShift ( @DpwnShift@kbin.social ) 78•1 year ago
If people are looking for alternatives that won’t be shut down, you… recommend they look to Google!? Ahahahahaha!
- 0110010001100010 ( @0110010001100010@kbin.social ) 37•1 year ago
Seriously, the graveyard is pretty extensive: https://killedbygoogle.com/
- OMG_its_mustard ( @OMG_its_mustard@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 11•1 year ago
I’m still bitter that they killed Inbox. It was superior to Gmail in every way.
- Limeade ( @Limeade@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
It really was. I miss inbox.
- Grimlo9ic ( @Grimlo9ic@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
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.
- billwashere ( @billwashere@vlemmy.net ) English1•1 year ago
Google wave wasn’t really killed. It’s functionality is pretty much built into google docs.
- HobbitFoot ( @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) 1•1 year ago
Two things killed it.
First, it was a slow resource hog. Second, it was productivity software at a time when work IM was hard to get people to use.
- -hypnotoad- ( @-hypnotoad-@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
And they won’t stop until they kill killedbygoogle by having it run out of storage space.
- SquishyPandaDev ( @SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net ) 17•1 year ago
Guys we swear this time is different. We are totally going to stick with it
- Satiric_Weasel ( @Satiric_Weasel@beehaw.org ) 16•1 year ago
“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?”
- nvimdiesel ( @nvimdiesel@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
It’s real this time time, gais, promisssss
gigglesnort
- lunarul ( @lunarul@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
It’s not an alternative to Reddit. It’s an alternative to adding “site:reddit.com” to your search query.
- ‘Leigh 🏳️⚧️ ( @leigh@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English76•1 year ago
How long until Google gives up and shuts it down? Place yer bets!!!
- Scroll Responsibly ( @scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ) English19•1 year ago
- VexCatalyst ( @VexCatalyst@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English13•1 year ago
I bet 3 upvotes and one Mastodon follow, it’s killed off in less then 5 years
- Glaive0 ( @Glaive0@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
I’ll be your third upvote. For less than 3.
- db0 ( @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•1 year ago
I knew this was going to be the top comment and I’m hereffor it!
- Anissem ( @Anissem@lemmy.ml ) English68•1 year ago
Google, a company you can trust. A company that thought the phrase ‘Don’t be evil’ didn’t fit anymore.
- shimura ( @shimura@beehaw.org ) English15•1 year ago
It’s still in their code of conduct, though. Got moved to the bottom.
- fulano ( @fulano@lemmy.eco.br ) English8•1 year ago
I remember when they took it off. They probably brought it back because it was giving them a bad image.
- Balinares ( @Balinares@pawb.social ) English5•1 year ago
They never took it off. That was an Internet meme. They just never did.
- fulano ( @fulano@lemmy.eco.br ) English1•1 year ago
You’re right, I checked here, and they always moved the line. Feels strange to see how our memories can trick us.
- shimura ( @shimura@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
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.
- fulano ( @fulano@lemmy.eco.br ) English2•1 year ago
I looked for more info, and you’re right. Strange, because I can remember it clearly. Was I a victim of the mandela effect?
- shimura ( @shimura@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Nah, no Mandela effect here. Just businesses being sneaky about appearing honest.
- Anissem ( @Anissem@lemmy.ml ) English5•1 year ago
Ahh ok that makes me feel better
- Another Person ( @AnotherPerson@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
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.
- femboy_link.mp4 ( @PascalSausage@beehaw.org ) English61•1 year ago
Neat, another service that Google will inexplicably kill in anywhere from 6 months to five years time.
- Deestan ( @Deestan@beehaw.org ) English21•1 year ago
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.
- Thalestr ( @Thalestr@beehaw.org ) English55•1 year ago
I give it a year before it’s shut down. This is Google, after all.
- artisanrox ( @artisanrox@kbin.social ) 12•1 year ago
!remindme 1 yr
oh wait
- Surya Teja K ( @shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizza ) 7•1 year ago
@artisanrox @lostwonder @Thalestr Well someone needs to build this ASAP. I miss it.
- jherazob ( @jherazob@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Man, deleting my reminders felt almost as final as deleting the account itself
- VexCatalyst ( @VexCatalyst@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
I wonder if bots like that are possible in the fediverse?
- jherazob ( @jherazob@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
I believe they 100% are but i have no idea how the Lemmy or Kbin APIs are
- HarkMahlberg ( @HarkMahlberg@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Start the clock. https://gcemetery.co/google-product-lifespan/
- theusualuser ( @theusualuser@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
It’ll be folded into some sort of AI thingy within a year, for sure.
- Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
AI is this year’s blockchain.
- StrayCatFrump ( @StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org ) English34•1 year ago
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.
- Deestan ( @Deestan@beehaw.org ) English18•1 year ago
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.
- MoonRocketeer ( @MoonRocketeer@beehaw.org ) English17•1 year ago
Google’s infamous graveyard makes it seem like they’re just a bored university student that can’t ever finish its side projects.
- wizardbeard ( @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•1 year ago
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.
- MoonRocketeer ( @MoonRocketeer@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
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.
- Los ( @Los@beehaw.org ) English20•1 year ago
This just sounds like Google with extra steps.
- withersailor ( @withersailor@aussie.zone ) English19•1 year ago
This will be saving you typing in +reddit +stackspace on searches. Still the same results.
Wish they’d include a -pinterest option.
- OnionFutures ( @OnionFutures@vlemmy.net ) English21•1 year ago
-site:pinterest.*
seems to work for me.
- Snapz ( @Snapz@beehaw.org ) English19•1 year ago
Invent the problem, then sell the solution.
Just fix search that you intentionally broke so that it returns all relevant results, inhumane cowards.
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
Thanks I hate it.
- billwashere ( @billwashere@vlemmy.net ) English15•1 year ago
I wouldn’t 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.
- 👍Maximum Derek👍 ( @Bishma@social.fossware.space ) English2•1 year ago
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.
- billwashere ( @billwashere@vlemmy.net ) English2•1 year 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.
- Varyag ( @Varyag@kbin.social ) 15•1 year ago
Ah yes, cause the problem by promoting SEO websites with machine generated content, then sell the solution! Splendid!
- SustainedChaos ( @SustainedChaos@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Microsoft Antivirus, second generation.
- 2bR02b ( @2bR02b@lemmy.one ) English14•1 year ago
A newer way to harvest data for them, I’m sure.
- mPony ( @mPony@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
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.
- Ullallulloo ( @Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com ) English13•1 year ago
This sounds like they’re copying Brave Discussions, which is basically just giving a little box with only reddit results near the top.
It’s definitely not an alternative to reddit or even its own platform. It sounds like just another conditional algorithm update, but I haven’t seen it yet.