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Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by StevePerkins »

d0vs wrote: post #93
Fej wrote: post #58

I wonder if it would be worth the money for Google to keep services like this one running, just so that people (especially enterprise customers) don't lose faith in Google's competency with regard to long-term product support. Although if you ask around here, you'd probably not find much faith for them to save.

I honestly don't think people outside the HN echo chamber care that much.

On the contrary. I've spent much of my career in the conservative "enterprise" world... and outside of the HN echo chamber, most established companies aren't yet making heavy use of Google products at all. Largely due to the cultural disconnect being discussed here.

Sorry, but "We'll give you 12 months notice!" is still nowhere near "enterprisey". Try a decade.

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by d_theorist »

ancarda wrote: post #98
d0vs wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly don't think people outside the HN echo chamber care that much.

Problem is, people on HN are making decisions and building tools and startups. If everyone loses faith in Google, we'll stop using their platforms and tools which translates to loss of money. The only example I can give is at my day job, I built a backup system that uses Azure blob storage because I actually trust Microsoft more than Google. I wonder how many other people have a "anyone but Google" approach? It's not…

Google clearly just doesn't have the enterprise-support mindset in their DNA in the way that companies like Microsoft do.

Google's core business is search and ads. Everything else is either an afterthought or a dalliance, and it shows.

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by threepipeproblm »

ancarda wrote: post #98
d0vs wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly don't think people outside the HN echo chamber care that much.

Problem is, people on HN are making decisions and building tools and startups. If everyone loses faith in Google, we'll stop using their platforms and tools which translates to loss of money. The only example I can give is at my day job, I built a backup system that uses Azure blob storage because I actually trust Microsoft more than Google. I wonder how many other people have a "anyone but Google" approach? It's not…

I already avoid new Google products because of this, as I am sure many of you do.

While I've embraced Golang somewhat, it took me a few extra months of research and thought before doing that.

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

#105

Post by vinceguidry »

ancarda wrote: post #98
d0vs wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly don't think people outside the HN echo chamber care that much.

Problem is, people on HN are making decisions and building tools and startups. If everyone loses faith in Google, we'll stop using their platforms and tools which translates to loss of money. The only example I can give is at my day job, I built a backup system that uses Azure blob storage because I actually trust Microsoft more than Google. I wonder how many other people have a "anyone but Google" approach? It's not…

The HN crowd is absolutely tiny, compared to the entire development ecosystem. And a lot of us aren't even shot-callers.

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by ancarda »

vinceguidry wrote: post #105
ancarda wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Problem is, people on HN are making decisions and building tools and startups. If everyone loses faith in Google, we'll stop using their platforms and tools which translates to loss of money. The only example I can give is at my day job, I built a backup system that uses Azure blob storage because I actually trust Microsoft more than Google. I wonder how many other people have a "anyone but Google" approach? It's not…

The HN crowd is absolutely tiny , compared to the entire development ecosystem. And a lot of us aren't even shot-callers.

Are you suggesting there's zero people outside HN who avoid Google products due to legitimate concerns of long-term availability?

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by i336_ »

kristopolous wrote: post #87
i336_ wrote: post #69

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c2 recently became obsessed with "federated wikis" apparently due to some unimpressed person threatening to batch-delete the entire site. Unfortunately JavaScript-based solutions became interesting. I'm mildly curious what would happen if you tried to build NetSurf on that thing. It compiles for AmigaOS and RISC OS...

First let me apologize to the HPUX wizard that will very likely read this for being such a bumbling amateur. Anyway, here I go: H3:54/raid/hp/netsurf-all-3.6$ gmake --version GNU Make 3.80 H3:55/raid/hp/netsurf-all-3.6$ /usr/local/bin/gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.3.1 H3:55/raid/hp/netsurf-all-3.6$ gmake BUILD_CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc ... gmake[1]: Entering directory `/raid/hp/netsurf-all-3.6/libwapcap…

I must admit that I would _really_ love to have a go at this HP-UX box. I have some ideas about how to fix the X issues you mentioned, and getting remote CDE working to your normal X display would be awesome too.

To be completely fair, building NetSurf may simply not be possible with the toolchain the machine has - I was maybe-1/3-joking about trying it :P - but it would be an awesome challenge to see if it could be done. I suspect it may just be possible.

I emailed you.

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by rfrey »

ethana wrote: post #18
mc32 wrote: post #12

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Since they pushed Excite out of this business, who will take up the slack?

Stucked in time: http://www.excite.com/

And if that's not good enough... they have a LITE VERSION. http://lite.excite.com/

Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018

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Post by DanBlake »

skzo wrote: post #88
DanBlake wrote: post #86

Shit, I use this for image search. Basically we let users submit the title of items they own (for everydaycarry.com), we do a google image search for that title and display back the top 5 results from googles image search to the user, letting them click on the appropriate product. We then link that product to the google image source URL. Anyone know of a alternative product that would let this keep happening? When we…

I think you'll still be able to do: https://www.google.pt/search?q=knives+site:http://everydayca...

We are looking for links to products on other sites- for instance https://www.google.com/search?q=gerber+shard&source=lnms&tbm...

Also, the link you give above is just googles normal link. You cant programmatically call it, or google will start throwing up a captcha which will stop automated queries.

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