I semi actively follow this space and had no idea that this service was ever out of private beta. I'd have put my clients on it almost immediately had I of known. What a shame.
Google Ends Page Speed Service
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Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service
#12I wasn't planning on announcing yet, but this seems like a good opportunity.
I'm working on a service that does real-time monitoring of your website performance, as measured by your actual users, on their browser. If that sounds interesting, my email is in my profile.
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#13Not sure if I should be using Google for anything except search ( pretty much most of my eggs are in the google basket )
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#14It wasn't a very good measure of page speed anyways. For example the Microsoft dev site scores 83/100 and loads faster than any site I've ever seen before.
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#15One more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.
Honest question: besides Google Reader, what has Google terminated that people actually used?
Web apps that I used on a daily basis: Notebook (very simple and there are others, but none have been as good IMO), Code Search, [Reader], iGoogle, SMS (although they killed it just before I got a smartphone. I would still use it for when I don't have data though).
Other sites that I used from time to time and miss: Meebo (mainly before Google purchase, but continued to use sometimes), Knol (I contributed to it and thought it was great), Video (I preferred the interface to YT and uploaded stuff to it until I no longer could), Answers (love reading it, great idea)
Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service
#16I wasn't planning on announcing yet, but this seems like a good opportunity. I'm working on a service that does real-time monitoring of your website performance, as measured by your actual users, on their browser. If that sounds interesting, my email is in my profile.
Like New Relic?
Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service
#17One more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.
Honest question: besides Google Reader, what has Google terminated that people actually used?
From personal experience:
Search API: used to be able to submit keywords and get XML results back, now it's AJAX-only and spits out formatted HTML, only 10 results, and different from real search results. Mostly useful for people involved in SEO. No big loss without it, but just means you have to scrape SERPs instead of getting them nicely bundled up.
Desktop: I used it for a while, then found Everything (http://www.voidtools.com/) which is far faster and more responsive.
Bookmarks: Edit: It is still there.
Health: I didn't use this directly, but many of us in the healthcare industry were looking to see how Google could shake things up. Apparently, PHI is hard and Google discontinued their service.
Voice: It hasn't been discontinued yet, but I feel certain this will be the next big product to go. The service (and app) hasn't been updated in years, there is no clear monetization strategy aside from international VOIP calling (which other applications do better), and the messaging portion is mostly covered by cellular carriers as "visual voicemail" with the widespread use of smartphones.
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#18It wasn't a very good measure of page speed anyways. For example the Microsoft dev site scores 83/100 and loads faster than any site I've ever seen before.
It sounds like you're talking about PageSpeed Insights? [1] That's not deprecated. This announcement is about PageSpeed Service, the Google-hosted optimizing proxy.
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#19It wasn't a very good measure of page speed anyways. For example the Microsoft dev site scores 83/100 and loads faster than any site I've ever seen before.
You're talking about a different service as an FYI. What you are referring to is Page Speed insights service which for the record is actually pretty amazing.
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#20I wasn't planning on announcing yet, but this seems like a good opportunity. I'm working on a service that does real-time monitoring of your website performance, as measured by your actual users, on their browser. If that sounds interesting, my email is in my profile.
This is already included in Analytics