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That doesn't work if you plug them into regular web search?
Have you tried googling for "kirk spock"? You don't get a list of other star trek characters.
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That doesn't work if you plug them into regular web search?
Have you tried googling for "kirk spock"? You don't get a list of other star trek characters.
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Have you tried googling for "kirk spock"? You don't get a list of other star trek characters.
Searching for "list of star trek characters" will give you a comprehensive result on Wikipedia though. As would many similar searches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_characters
Remember this before you rely too much on a Google product. Google isn't Microsoft and that's okay, but one of Microsoft's strong points is that they keep things around forever. Google still has the start-up culture where you can throw things away that aren't working. The difference is, in most start-ups, you don't have millions of people using the product you just threw away.
I'm using Gmail. Should I be worried?
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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.
You're right, I meant "gone" in the sense of deprecated more than vanished. The data is safe but the disruption to my workflow would be annoying enough that I'd rather not get too used to it.
I 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 "terrie…
What were some real-world situations where you used Google Sets? It always seemed to me like a cool toy without much practical use, and certainly not the most worthy sink of a good engineer's limited time.
I really don't like things like this. A lot of these projects ended up as other projects or built into other projects. Google checkout turned into Google Wallet. Google latitude ended up as part of the Google+ Identity overhaul. There's also a lot of projects that are "labs" or "beta." Clearly they didn't gain the traction Google wanted from them. Google's like any other startup on a project-by-project basis. If the…
I always wondered why Google didn't spin off some of this as open source projects. It seems to me that the bottleneck wasn't the hosting, but the man hours being wasted on them. Google could have reduced their involvement to providing an API and the development could have been managed by community. It's easier said than done, obviously. Maybe the bottleneck was psychological and focus related, and they wanted to wipe…
It is notable that Google doesn't internally use services. If for example they wrote everything to work on appengine/cloud in exactly the same way and APIs as outsiders do, then spinning out would be a lot easier. http://steverant.pen.io/