A thrilling roundup of the things Google has killed this week.
  •  EccTM   ( @EccTM@lemmy.ml ) English
    27•1 year ago

    Dead Products (Death Date)

    • Mentioned in article:
      • Google Podcasts (Later in 2024)
      • YouTube Premium Lite (Oct 2023)
      • Gmail’s “Basic HTML” view (Jan 2024)
    • Not mentioned in article:
      • Google Optimize (30 Sept 2023)
      • Google Domains (30 Sept 2023)
  •  Hiccup   ( @Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
    12•1 year ago

    Learning to rely on Google as little as possible years ago was the best thing that ever happened to me. I learned this lesson/ came to this conclusion after they got rid of Google reader and even home page/ start page. Google reader was the best (still to this day) rss reader ever made. I still haven’t found anything that matches how I had mine set up and its functionality/ usefulness.

  •  AutoTL;DR   ( @autotldr@lemmings.world ) BEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Google is killing off so many products lately we need to do a roundup or we won’t get anything else done today.

    YouTube has been slowly consuming all of Google’s media properties, and podcasts completes the trinity along with videos (both amateur and scripted Hollywood content) and music.

    This was announced on the official YouTube blog, if there was any question about the responsible party.

    In 2024, Google Podcasts will die at 8 years old, if you want to count from the weird Google Search beginnings, but only has had the bare minimum feature set of a podcast service for four years.

    If you’ve never heard of this, that’s because it got a very small rollout to only Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.

    You can throw this shutdown into the pile of “Google price increases” this year.

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