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Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Re: Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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Post by fomine3 »

dingusdew wrote: post #304
pcurve wrote: post #292

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They've killed off almost 300. They have ~100 left. https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/products/ What do you think will go next? I'm sure some of these will bite the bullet this year. 1. Exposure Notifications (maybe in 2-3 years) 2. Google Arts and Culture <- this one has to be expensive to maintain 3. Keep 4. Scholar 5. Tilt Brush 6. Google Lens 7. Google Groups 8. Google Drawings

Exposure Notifications is probably already dead. It's dead in Washington state, which is also where it was originally developed alongside Google. If it's not being used in the state that it was developed in initially, it's doubtfully being used nationwide. Perhaps other parts of the world still use it, but the US no longer gives a rats ass.

Exposure Notifications was a great try by Google and Apple. If it weren't a thing, most big government would develop more privacy invasive contact tracing app. It seems that it wasn't worked well, but still a great try.

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Post by akpa1 »

dylan604 wrote: post #179
akpa1 wrote: post #87

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I moved a domain away from Cloudflare a month or so ago, only to be faced with this. Just my luck.

How does something like this work with the rules on moving domains around quickly. Isn't there like a 6 month time out between moves?

I believe it's 60 days that you have to wait, not 6 months.

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Post by dumpsterdiver »

callalex wrote: post #380
015a wrote: post #324

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I don't think Keep will go away; its one of only 14 of Google's products that they classify as "Workspace/Enterprise"; alongside Gmail, Meet, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, AppsScript, CloudSearch, and Jamboard.

Tell that to Hangouts

(Google Talk enters the chat) "Hey guys, what are we talking about?"

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Post by ororroro »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #388
mavhc wrote: post #386

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Hangouts migrated to Chat, is that bad?

What's chat? Not gchat surely? Didn't hangouts migrate to meet?

Together Chat and Meet are the replacement for Hangouts. Meet is also the replacement for Duo.

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Post by re-thc »

ipaddr wrote: post #267
eek2121 wrote: post #199

Me with 100+ domains with Google: chuckles I'm in danger! I should have known. I started a transition for most of my stuff to cloudflare anyway. I kind of figured this would come eventually.

You believe things will go better with cloudflare?

Cloudflare makes you use their DNS with the registrar so there's an incentive for them to keep it (bundling).

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Post by _xivi »

paulgb wrote: post #235
emmelaich wrote: post #223

Yet https://domains.google/ is has no mention of it and still invites people to move their domain to Google.... I suppose that's ok if the move to Squarespace goes smoothly.

The comms around this has been weird —- I haven’t been able to find any mention of it from official Google channels. You’d think if they were planning to announce this they’d have a blog post and email to customers ready to go.

https://support.google.com/domains/answer/13689670

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Post by ralfd »

pcurve wrote: post #292
DLA wrote: post #204

Yet another business Google bails on. Add that to the pile. Gee wonder why Google Cloud is getting smashed by AWS and Azure—maybe because nobody trusts Google to not flake out on that business or key products within it. They need some management changes!

They've killed off almost 300. They have ~100 left. https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/products/ What do you think will go next? I'm sure some of these will bite the bullet this year. 1. Exposure Notifications (maybe in 2-3 years) 2. Google Arts and Culture <- this one has to be expensive to maintain 3. Keep 4. Scholar 5. Tilt Brush 6. Google Lens 7. Google Groups 8. Google Drawings

I didn't know Tilt Brush was from Google. From 2016 and It certainly feels like the older more whimsical Google.

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Post by dreamer7 »

ssnistfajen wrote: post #373
pcurve wrote: post #292

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They've killed off almost 300. They have ~100 left. https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/products/ What do you think will go next? I'm sure some of these will bite the bullet this year. 1. Exposure Notifications (maybe in 2-3 years) 2. Google Arts and Culture <- this one has to be expensive to maintain 3. Keep 4. Scholar 5. Tilt Brush 6. Google Lens 7. Google Groups 8. Google Drawings

If they kill Keep, that will be the catalyst for me to ideologically de-Google my online life. My previous Google-induced losses were largely replacable but Keep is absolutely the final straw.

I already migrated from Keep just for this reason. It's ok to make temporary notes there but for long lasting organisation I prefer a different solution
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