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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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I'm betting that Google Photos will necessarily stick around in order to keep Android competitive with iOS (and perhaps Windows.) I desperately hope they make it a paid service, if needed, rather than shutter it. I've fully committed and have uploaded 40,932 photos. All of the automation has been amazing.
I'm not trying to be a dick and am genuinely curious. What are you going to do with those 41 thousand photos? Do you ever go back and look at them? I see lots of people taking a ton of photos, they get stored in the cloud automatically, and then... what? Does anybody ever go back and look at that bad photo of a fish they took at an aquarium five years ago?
I have uploaded O(10K) photos to Google photos, with O(1K) albums. I find it immensely valuable. Here are some scenarios where I actually use the uploaded pics:
- family reunion: watching videos of family members taken over the years (nice integration with chromecast to watch on tv)
- meeting friends after a long time: quickly retrieving super old pics (good search abilities with album names and tags/captions)
- casual discussions with friends/family about a specific experience (eg. trips to a particular destination): quickly retrieving pics taken there
Coupled with the fact that there is unlimited storage, ability to share across as many channels as I want (email, FB, WhatsApp...), seamless backup and sync across my various devices, ability to create shared albums with other people - I would say this is one of the rare great products Google has released in the last ~5 years.
p.s. fwiw, I also have a local backup copy in case Google messes with my account.
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
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Microsoft already has released Office Online. It's lite versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They're quite good. They get certain enhancements when you buy an Office 365 subscription (in addition to the full applications). IMHO there's nothing wrong with wanting to work for Google/Facebook/any of the big 4/5. Get one of those on your resume and you are set for life, even if the work isn't all it's cracked up to b…
I didn't know about Office Online. Glad to hear Microsoft is doing that. The problem with Google and Facebook is that I've come to realize our ethics are extremely misaligned. I'm not interested in building exploitable systems filled with damaging metadata that can be abused by totalitarian states or vengeful employees. I'm not interested in forcing Africa into a world where Facebook and Google are synonymous with th…
Many of those reasons you wanted to work for them are very subjective. While you mentioned that the last one is not true, I find that the Google Deep Mind project to build a Starcraft AI is extremely interesting.
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
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I didn't know about Office Online. Glad to hear Microsoft is doing that. The problem with Google and Facebook is that I've come to realize our ethics are extremely misaligned. I'm not interested in building exploitable systems filled with damaging metadata that can be abused by totalitarian states or vengeful employees. I'm not interested in forcing Africa into a world where Facebook and Google are synonymous with th…
Many of those reasons you wanted to work for them are very subjective. While you mentioned that the last one is not true, I find that the Google Deep Mind project to build a Starcraft AI is extremely interesting.
I'll agree, they are in some ways subjective, but I have to work with the assumptions and motivations I have when it comes to choosing my employer.
Now Deep Mind... I would work for Deep Mind. Or even just intern. I would love to work with some of the ML pioneers even if just for a few months and just soak in everything I can.
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#185Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#186What are some competitors to site search?
You can try searchIQ. I am using it for a while and my website search looks good so far. Though i am still using free version but they have also released Pro version with added functionality. You can have a look at that also.
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
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" Looks like some serious effort. To put things in context, I can't do remote X to a modern machine as in "$ DISPLAY=desktop:0 xterm& " This gives a protocol error. " Ok, I'm impressed. That's the first time I've seen that.
I believe it's relatively recent. I've heard second-hand from better men than me that they are dropping a lot of legacy things. As far as I can tell, the HP is running X11R5. It doesn't do -version, the man page is for R5 and the binary is dated "Oct 27 1997" ... so yeah, 20 years ago. It's honestly a reasonable thing to break.
X11R5 is older than I am (and I'm old). Wow.
That would explain it.
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
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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.
I can't wait for Rust to gain more traction, and be usable on the web. IMHO it's a much more pleasant language to work with.
Funnily enough I am doing the exact same thing. In my mind Golang has a temporary spot on the roster, and I'm actively looking at Rust, Nim, and a few other languages for writing some server projects in the next few years.
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
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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.
I work in the conservatibe enterprise world, and vendors dropping services with much less than a decades notice -- usually, but not always, with a recommended replacement that they are also willing to sell you -- is quite common.
I think Google's problem here, inasmuch as it has one, is marketing and relationships, not substantive policy.
Re: Google Site Search will be completely shut down by April 1, 2018
#190this is why i'm not completely 100% with google photos. i'm ready to spend the monthly fees to store all my pictures in its original resolution, use google photos to manage/search my photos. except i don't want to commit to using it and then finding out google doesn't want to support it and just dumps it. same thing with google voice. i use it but i've never committed to using it as my main phone number. maybe it's a…
I'm betting that Google Photos will necessarily stick around in order to keep Android competitive with iOS (and perhaps Windows.) I desperately hope they make it a paid service, if needed, rather than shutter it. I've fully committed and have uploaded 40,932 photos. All of the automation has been amazing.
> I'm betting that Google Photos will necessarily stick around in order to keep Android competitive with iOS (and perhaps Windows.) I desperately hope they make it a paid service, if needed, rather than shutter it.
Photos is a paid service already, with a free tier.