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Arguably a little longer, its just compounded, Windows peaked at 8 and 10 was downhill spiral, 11 is just all the bad stuff that 10 had available out of the box.

Peak was Windows 2000 Professional.

Such a great operating system. I miss it.

Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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Google abandons a piece of software into decaying crap but their scale and 'free'-ness is so large that we don't get a good replacement for years and years...

On a sidenote, is there anything good to replace google news?

Similar thoughts with hackernews...

Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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Thanks for sharing those requirements. What are the most comparable competitors to Google News today that you would use for this?

Kagi, obviously (disclosure: My son works for Kagi.)

What would you need built on top of Kagi to achieve similar results? I am attempting to solution this problem fwiw so that others have a non Google solution for this use case.

(disclosure: paying Kagi customer, can pay more if needed for them to build more)

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Arguably a little longer, its just compounded, Windows peaked at 8 and 10 was downhill spiral, 11 is just all the bad stuff that 10 had available out of the box.

Peak was Windows 2000 Professional.

Yes, this is my opinion as well. I did my MCSE certification on win2k and their stuff was good back then, even on that old hardware. You had to beg it to BSOD.

Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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I'm convinced nobody works at these tech companies. It's like (another pop culture reference!) getting Homer Simpson's mechanical woodpecker that almost resulted in the nuclear explosion How can we piss off the MOST amount of users? I have a bet going with Fred in Accounting

Mechanical Woodpecker? I thought they were called drinking birds….

Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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I signed up for Kagi earlier today, because I went to Google to search for any recent leaks or tidbits on the 2027 WRX—- I had selected Tools > Time > Past Week and the results were utter nonsense. Results from two months ago, a month ago, literally everything except within the past week. Having it return “no matches” or the single weird site which shows nothing but ads and embeds every keyword combination possible would’ve been vastly better. It honestly feels like they’re just showing results that power their AI summary regardless of what you actually want.

After 23ish years of using Google, this was the final straw. It’s wild to see them just shit on their primary product with reckless abandon. I’d guess we’re two years from Google releasing “search classic” to try and shore up their core business once enough people realize Google search is dead.

Re: Google has abandoned Google News?

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I really can't get over the way almost every piece of consumer technology/software has gotten worse in the last half decade. These companies are killing every goose they can get their hands on because they are so convinced there is some golden goose out there that will be worth more than all those regular geese combined.

have you seen Masayoshi Son goose presentation? https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investor... page 44 I think you're onto something edit: replaced the link to point to the actual slides, it's worth checking the actual source, there is some hilarious details there! (spoiler: "The true source of value. Golden egg factory inside the goose")

What a fever dream of a presentation, but I bet it was effective.
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