Um, Google Videos is on the list? https://www.google.com/videohp?gws_rd=ssl
Google Videos pre YouTube was a video hosting service, rather than a search engine.
Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google
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#22RIP Google Code Search, aka the best code search ever. No credible competitor has yet emerged, and this is a real loss for all programmers: no more easy searching for sample code in obscure WIN32 Api, easy searching for arch-specific POSIX implementation details used by various open source projects, global error message grepping, and countless other little things which are not incredibly painful and difficult. I am s…
You don't think github is all that and more?
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Re: Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google
#24RIP Google Code Search, aka the best code search ever. No credible competitor has yet emerged, and this is a real loss for all programmers: no more easy searching for sample code in obscure WIN32 Api, easy searching for arch-specific POSIX implementation details used by various open source projects, global error message grepping, and countless other little things which are not incredibly painful and difficult. I am s…
You don't think github is all that and more?
Can you search github with a regex?
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#25RIP Google Code Search, aka the best code search ever. No credible competitor has yet emerged, and this is a real loss for all programmers: no more easy searching for sample code in obscure WIN32 Api, easy searching for arch-specific POSIX implementation details used by various open source projects, global error message grepping, and countless other little things which are not incredibly painful and difficult. I am s…
You don't think github is all that and more?
Github search is fine, do not get me wrong. But this is like telling someone lamenting on the hypothetical end of Google search: "Just use the search function in Facebook, you don't need more"
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#26I was one of the (apparently few) people who used Google Sets a lot. Even though its results were often hit-or-miss, there were enough hits for it to be a valuable resource.
And unfortunately, I don't know of any comparable alternative. (But please tell me if you do!)
Here is the problem it solved:
It let you discover members of a set by entering a few members that you already know.
For instance, if you enter "terrier," "bulldog," "German shepherd," it might return, "beagle," "poodle," "chihuahua."
Obviously, in this example, it would probably be just as easy to Google "list dog breeds."
But what if you know a few members of a set ... but don't actually know what the set is, or the proper way to describe the set to a search engine?
Or what if the search engine results take you to pages that list some related terms, but you've got to sift through a lot of other content to get to them?
That's when Google Sets really came in handy.
Edit: I admit, Google has gotten a lot better in recent years at returning this sort of information in search results. And Wolfram does a good job, too. So my need for Sets has decreased, but I still miss it.
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#27Um, Google Videos is on the list? https://www.google.com/videohp?gws_rd=ssl
Google videos was originally a YouTube competitor, obviously before Google bought YouTube. It later became a search engine.
So for all intents and purposes, the original project is dead.
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#28I've had this persistent nagging feeling that I shouldn't use Google Keep for anything important because it could be gone tomorrow.
The chances of it being "gone" tomorrow are basically zero. The worst thing that could happen tomorrow would be an announcement that in 60 days, no new Keep items could be added, and you'll have a year to download all your old ones as text, HTML, or JSON.
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#29I've had this persistent nagging feeling that I shouldn't use Google Keep for anything important because it could be gone tomorrow.
I never really use it for anything important anyway but I can't imagine it going anywhere other than getting rolled into some aspect of Drive. It's already sort of a simplified note-centric version of Google Docs and mostly works the same way. I just use it since it's easy to keep on my phone's home screen for quick notes and snapshots I want to be able to access elsewhere if needed. I know something like Evernote is more fully featured but since Keep came out, I don't really use Evernote anymore. I think my needs in that space are just simple.
Re: Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google
#30RIP Google Code Search, aka the best code search ever. No credible competitor has yet emerged, and this is a real loss for all programmers: no more easy searching for sample code in obscure WIN32 Api, easy searching for arch-specific POSIX implementation details used by various open source projects, global error message grepping, and countless other little things which are not incredibly painful and difficult. I am s…
You don't think github is all that and more?
GitHub's search doesn't support regular expressions.
(I'm aware you can clone the repo and search it locally, but that somewhat defeats the point - especially for large projects.)