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Post by pcurve »

Golden_Wind123 wrote: post #556
pcurve wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Google Lens is a godsend traveling. It works much faster than the Google Translate app for translating text and it also helps identify any plants or landmarks that catch the eye. I hope that technology never gets killed.

Given that it also helps identify skin conditions, I hope you're right.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23761905/google-lens-skin...

I was thinking more in terms of why it needs to exist as a separate app.

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Post by meragrin_ »

ricardonunez wrote: post #265
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!

I’m still surprised why Fi has not been dropped even with many customer support issues.

> I’m still surprised why Fi has not been dropped

It is probably something they already had internally that they figured they could monetize easily. They develop Android and RCS. Operating their own MVNO could very well allow them to simplify some things.

> many customer support issues.

Huh? I've used them for years. Never had issues which were not directly related to T-Mobile's network. There were no issues the few times I interacted with support.

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Post by yencabulator »

sokoloff wrote: post #51
smoldesu wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Precisely as long as it takes YouTube to fail, which is their last remaining meaningful cash cow (besides advertising).

Is YouTube even “besides” advertising?

I'd say it's "besides ads" just like Search is. It's a destination site that also serves ads, instead of serving ads on other people's destination sites. One could imagine a world where Search and Youtube were separate entities, both using Ads for income. Ads itself is more of a marketplace of eyeballs.

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Post by dumpsterdiver »

WorldMaker wrote: post #548
dumpsterdiver wrote: post #391

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At least until Clippy dies, at which point some people will miss loving him, and probably a few more will miss hating him. Either way, he will be missed.

Uh, Office hasn't included Clippy in decades? Are you posting from 90s Slashdot, too?

(quiet gasp) He's gone? I must have lost track of the time I guess. Anyway, I'm gonna go get some exercise playing a VR game (kneels down and leans head forward uncomfortably to look into a Gameboy Virtual Boy).

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Post by volongoto »

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 wonder if there are people out there playing Google Graveyard Bingo.

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Post by sokoloff »

yencabulator wrote: post #565
sokoloff wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is YouTube even “besides” advertising?

I'd say it's "besides ads" just like Search is. It's a destination site that also serves ads, instead of serving ads on other people's destination sites. One could imagine a world where Search and Youtube were separate entities, both using Ads for income. Ads itself is more of a marketplace of eyeballs.

To me, that explains why it's "besides AdSense".
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