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Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google

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Re: Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google

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Post by Navarr »

throwawaymsft wrote: post #136
methehack wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a little unfair, I agree. And I think it's all too easy to be snarky about other peoples hard work (haters gotta hate), especially when it doesn't work out. At the same time, Google seems to want it both ways. They have an idea and use their size to attract users and, perhaps even unintentionally, effectively block others from implementing the idea or scare others away (a size thing). Then, if they decide they…

Totally agree on wanting it both ways. When you associate a product with a brand, you are attempting to overcome objections by saying "This brand supports this product and is putting its reputation behind it." If Google wants to experiment, create projects that don't have the Google brand (they just use G+ login like any other startup) and then reveal it was Google all along. Let the projects succeed on their own mer…

> If you tie in the Google brand you are setting expectations that this will be a long-lasting effort.

I don't think anyone has that expectation anymore :p

Re: Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google

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Post by nadams »

cbr wrote: post #112
nadams wrote: post #55

They forgot Google Code[1]. It's still "up" but it's obvious it's been abandoned by the amount of spam issues that have been building up. I know people like github more than google code - but I personally liked Google Code for it's simplicity. [1] - https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/list?can=2&q=&sort=...

Should Google just kill it and suggest people move to GitHub?

Well - Google should offer a way to export your data that way people can easily move to another source code hosting service.

Preferably - it should be a one button click of "copy to github repo". Which would include conversion of SVN and Mercurial history to git.

Re: Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google

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Post by duderific »

edem wrote: post #95

Please add a hand icon when I hover over a box. It will make me think that each box is clickable (they are) and the UX is improved that way.

Interestingly, the HTML spec indicates that only hyperlinks should change the cursor to a hand when hovering. Nowadays though, everyone expects that hand == clickable.

Re: Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google

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Post by cbr »

nadams wrote: post #152
cbr wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should Google just kill it and suggest people move to GitHub?

Well - Google should offer a way to export your data that way people can easily move to another source code hosting service. Preferably - it should be a one button click of "copy to github repo". Which would include conversion of SVN and Mercurial history to git.

That makes sense. That's what I'd want for my projects on Google Code if it got shut down.

Re: Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google

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Post by [deleted] »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #150
livingparadox wrote: post #118

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Google docs is fantastic. I use it exclusively (docs and sheets) and haven't seen anything buggy about it. I have never found myself a wanting a feature in google docs that wasn't also missing from Office. The only limitation I came across in sheets was the limited scope of conditional formatting. That's pretty much it.

Ive just been using it a week or so, but this is what I remember right off. Features missing from Word Docs: KeepTogether, orphan/widow management, page layout, reviewing(?) Bugs: typeface changes when going back to Normal after any heading (doesn't change but ribbon says it has). Ctrl-C copies but Ctrl-X doesn't delete text Font changes randomly DO or DONT apply to the line you're on, when not selected

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Re: Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google

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Post by xxgreg »

xroche wrote: post #9

RIP 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…

I heard rumours that it was shut down because of license reasons. i.e. displaying the code to a user was making a copy in a legal sense, this has differing implications depending on the original software license.

Re: Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google

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Post by laumars »

bduerst wrote: post #126
laumars wrote: post #31

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Yes, if the code is on Github. However not everyone who publishes code uses Github (myself included)

Why not? (I'm genuinely interested here - not trying to snark)

I can set up my own git repositories so I have no need for github.
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