Google SMS search has been shut down
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Google SMS search has been shut down
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Re: Google SMS search has been shut down
#2Are Google having cashflow problems?
How come they're shutting down so many of their services?
Re: Google SMS search has been shut down
#3Are Google having cashflow problems? How come they're shutting down so many of their services?
My guess is Google is focusing more on a certain goal than having cash flow issues.
Re: Google SMS search has been shut down
#4Are Google having cashflow problems? How come they're shutting down so many of their services?
To me it sounds more like they are shutting down services that can't be monetized :/
Re: Google SMS search has been shut down
#5Wow, from that thread the service looks very useful(even if you have a smartphone with data). Wish I knew about it before the shutdown.
I guess such is life in the Googleverse now: if you're unprofitable then you're "distracting us from our core mission". Who wants to make bets on the next service(s) to bite the dust? :)
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#6Are Google having cashflow problems? How come they're shutting down so many of their services?
Google "Babel" is coming. Maybe that's why.
I also think Google's top executives have a certain vision about what apps they will need in the future, and where they are heading, and that doesn't include many of the more "random" projects that were built before.
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#7Are Google having cashflow problems? How come they're shutting down so many of their services?
>Are Google having cashflow problems?
Nope, they are more profitable than ever.
My friend who works at Google explained to me that a big issue is maintenance. It's a tougher problem than it sounds because if an issue comes up someone needs to understand the codebase well. When a product is no longer worth the budget of full-time employees the best course of action is to kill the product.
Re: Google SMS search has been shut down
#8Wow, from that thread the service looks very useful(even if you have a smartphone with data). Wish I knew about it before the shutdown. I guess such is life in the Googleverse now: if you're unprofitable then you're "distracting us from our core mission". Who wants to make bets on the next service(s) to bite the dust? :)
Never knew about it, either.
Re: Google SMS search has been shut down
#9Wow, from that thread the service looks very useful(even if you have a smartphone with data). Wish I knew about it before the shutdown. I guess such is life in the Googleverse now: if you're unprofitable then you're "distracting us from our core mission". Who wants to make bets on the next service(s) to bite the dust? :)
Let's extend that idea to it's logical extent: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns
Re: Google SMS search has been shut down
#10Are Google having cashflow problems? How come they're shutting down so many of their services?
>Are Google having cashflow problems? Nope, they are more profitable than ever. My friend who works at Google explained to me that a big issue is maintenance. It's a tougher problem than it sounds because if an issue comes up someone needs to understand the codebase well. When a product is no longer worth the budget of full-time employees the best course of action is to kill the product.
This: Nope, they are more profitable than ever.
Goes hand in hand with "shutting down a lot of services" since rounded to the nearest billion dollars the only business Google has is search & display advertising, generally deleting anything else accretes positively to the bottom line :-)