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Post by isaacfung »

endisneigh wrote: post #72

I wish the folks who clearly do not like Google would just not use their products instead of spamming every thread about how they will kill the product, true or not. —— Anyway, It’s not clear which model they’re using for this. I assume whatever Bard is using, but who knows. This is relevant because depending on the intended experience the latency will matter. Overall it’s not a bad idea, but I do wonder what the mon…

I feel like most social media would be much more usable if there is some kind of browser extension that automatically clusters the comments and hides the same opinion/sentiments that have been repeated a dozen times in the same thread(you can label the clusters with comment counts of the same topic).

edit: Actually before someone submits a comment, they should be informed that how many people have said the exact same thing, like a repost warning.

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Post by PeterStuer »

techsupporter wrote: post #87
endisneigh wrote: post #72

I wish the folks who clearly do not like Google would just not use their products instead of spamming every thread about how they will kill the product, true or not. —— Anyway, It’s not clear which model they’re using for this. I assume whatever Bard is using, but who knows. This is relevant because depending on the intended experience the latency will matter. Overall it’s not a bad idea, but I do wonder what the mon…

> I wish the folks who clearly do not like Google would just not use their products instead of spamming every thread about how they will kill the product, true or not. Me, upon reading something about this: "Oh, this sounds interesting, I would like to have a go at something nea--" observes it is released by Google "Well, never mind, I'm not going to invest the energy into it until it reaches its third birthday." Goo…

While I understant the feelings about Google wrt product longevity, I fail to see why that would prevent you from using this specific product as the 'investment' seems to be you uploading a Google doc and the payoff is instant.

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Post by manojlds »

endisneigh wrote: post #72

I wish the folks who clearly do not like Google would just not use their products instead of spamming every thread about how they will kill the product, true or not. —— Anyway, It’s not clear which model they’re using for this. I assume whatever Bard is using, but who knows. This is relevant because depending on the intended experience the latency will matter. Overall it’s not a bad idea, but I do wonder what the mon…

You don't have to HATE or not like Google to be very wary of their product killings.

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Post by tasubotadas »

"We are amazing though leaders and AI product developers"

"We created this amazing tool that will change the world and is awesome and everything"

"But you need to sign up for the waitlist"

"you need to be in the US"

"you need to sign NDA"

Amazing.

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Post by diffeomorphism »

endisneigh wrote: post #72

I wish the folks who clearly do not like Google would just not use their products instead of spamming every thread about how they will kill the product, true or not. —— Anyway, It’s not clear which model they’re using for this. I assume whatever Bard is using, but who knows. This is relevant because depending on the intended experience the latency will matter. Overall it’s not a bad idea, but I do wonder what the mon…

> I wish the folks who clearly do not like Google would just not use their products instead of spamming every thread about how they will kill the product, true or not.

It seems weird that you think these people do not like google. Then why would they care? The uncertainty of the "google graveyard" only affects you if you do like and use their stuff. And fans in particular can be very gloom and doom about anything, e.g. see any esports game update and how it will completely break everything.

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

mattzito wrote: post #95
JimDabell wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Google Docs has been going strong for almost 2 decades I have to disagree here. There have been long stretches of time where it’s appeared to be a mothballed project with virtually no user-visible changes happening to it. Here’s the official changelog: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/9228272 Barely anything happened mid 2019–2021. It looked like a product in maintenance mode for years. Take July 2019 to July…

For whatever its worth, I worked near docs during that time, and that support note elides a lot of the launches that happened. The big focus during that time was on Office compatibility, and so there were a lot of investment in things that were not end-user visible, but allowed for better coexistence in mixed environments. A massive launch in terms of impact and usage was the ability to directly edit word documents i…

The article mentions Google Labs. Do you know if this is an actual team or just an umbrella term for public beta products made by different teams?

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Post by Angostura »

pphysch wrote: post #109
thefourthchime wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think everybody used to love Google. Around 2012, they were just making one hit after another. Google Docs, Google Maps, Gmail, they revolutionized search! What have they done in the last 10 years? Jack shit, except, launch a bunch of things that might have been cool, but then just killed it. How many messenger apps have they had? Google Stadia? I mean, come on, the list is incredible.

The idea of "stanning/hating" a megacorporation, one of the most powerful entities on the planet, is a priori absurd in the vein of Bryan Cantrill's "don't anthropomorphize Oracle". Apple spends billions of dollars promoting its global brand as a culture and way of life; this does not mean we need to apply this framework to other brands. Spewing negativity (or positivity) about Google in this context is a self-own, b…

Why are you replying to a comment about the lack of recent innovation at Google and product positioning missteps with a comment talking about 'stanning/hating. That's not what the commmenter is doing.

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Post by phito »

patates wrote: post #118
lolinder wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, there are a lot of low-effort comments here to this effect. I agree with you and will happily upvote the first well-written comment pointing out Google's self-inflicted reputational damage, but the myriad one-line jabs aren't adding anything.

I'd normally feel the same as you about the "one-line jabs" but in this case, IMHO they help to underline the fact that Google really did screw a lot of people over.

To me, it underlines that it became a meme more than a fact.
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