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However, I stopped using it last year since China blocked all Google service while my blog is mostly for Chinese readers. Though the proxy/cdn service is shutting down, the Pagespeed Module of Apache/Nginx is awesome, which is what I am using right now.
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.
One more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.
Gmail and "Google" aren't going anywhere.
Another issue that bothers the hell out of me is that with all the scanning of emails they do they can't figure out a probably date and time from emails that were turned into events, which mention a date and time in the body or subject.
Something I also find rather annoying is that you can't filter messages only to me from a specific sender but without any other recipients.
One more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.
Might have something to do with another comment in this thread... > I didn't even realize they offered this - CloudFlare really seems to dominate the narrative in this area. Is this something you used? Does its turndown affect you? anyone?
One thing that would be awesome is if you could add a Google Analytics tracking code, so you could track how often their error page is shown.
* PageSpeed Insights: tells you how to make your website faster and gives you a score.
* PageSpeed Modules (mod_pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed): open source web server plugins that rewrite your site to load faster.
* PageSpeed Service: Google-hosted proxy version of the PageSpeed Modules.
We're only deprecating PageSpeed Service.
(I'm the TL for the open source modules.)
It seems to be implied that this is the same team as Mod_Pagespeed? Hopefully that won't get discontinued as well, it's pretty valuable
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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…
At the time it was discontinued. Microsoft had made it next to impossible to build your own desktop search. In particular, it was nearly impossible to turn off the indexing service they built (and required user intervention), making GDS slow, and they also started blocking/changing the API's GDS was using to make it fast. So basically, Google killed it because they didn't think they could keep making it good.
(Nowadays, i'm pretty sure you could do it again, but ...
Also, humorously, your link gets connection refused for me :P)
"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."
Everyone who didn't get out of this (IE MS) has only avoided doing so to avoid looking bad (When i was hiring in DC, i used to get tons of resumes from people at these services, all saying "they won't kill it completely, but they are not investing it in anymore so i want out"). From what i know, the industry is just too much of a mess and regulatory environment too weird for most companies to be significantly successful here right now.
"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."
Go in what sense? As a separate product? I could see that. The functionality? ISTM the likely result here is that it just becomes part of hangouts or whatever.
I 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?
I'm also treating this more as a production monitoring tool, rather than a dev tool.