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I have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble
I'm very far away from that bubble and I have yet to meet anyone who uses Bing either. And I know several people who still use Hotmail/Yahoo.
> Yahoo! Search is a rebadged version of the Bing search engine owned by Yahoo!, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Let's take a moment of silence in solidarity with all the engineers who will now have to make their company's blog support this.
And let's take a moment of silence in solidarity for all engineers who worked on this when this gets scraped.
Am I the only one who, after reading the landing page, still has no idea what this is? I’ve been watching “immersive” websites for quite some time, mostly marketing-ish websites but also sometimes some special purpose pages from National Geografic or NYT. What exactly is this? A JavaScript/CSS framework? Something like AMP? Or is it a social network like Snapchat? I’m genuinely confused what I’m looking at and feel o…
The show cases make things slightly more clear. It seems like a framework for creating short vertical-orientated chaptered videos with fancy captions and that play mute by default. Why anyone would want this? I do not know. https://stories.google/showcase/
Snapchat and Vine started it, and now TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook are all neck-deep in it. Every single one is dominated by this content in 2020, with perhaps the only area where text is still a main thing being Discord (although voice-chat is the attractive bit for gamers) & the streaming world (Twitch comments, youtube comments, niche Twitter communities).
Whether we like it or not that's where the users are, and for Google that means it's where the ads and indexing should be.
I'll be honest: I don't know what this is and I don't want to know. I want nothing to do with it. Google needs to give up on this. They failed with gchat, they failed with google wave, they failed with orkut, they failed with google+.... They can't seem to stop trying to worm their way into social tech. They just don't get that their brand doesn't work for this and nobody is buying it.
Anywho, as it stands now, Google seem to be finding new ways to set up toll-booths on the internet via search lock-in. That's their new mantra. Whatever happened to organizing the world's information? Even their "About 2,800,000 results" is total BS. I can't go past page 20 on almost all queries.
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Microsoft Bing competes with Google Search.
I have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble
Am I the only one who, after reading the landing page, still has no idea what this is? I’ve been watching “immersive” websites for quite some time, mostly marketing-ish websites but also sometimes some special purpose pages from National Geografic or NYT. What exactly is this? A JavaScript/CSS framework? Something like AMP? Or is it a social network like Snapchat? I’m genuinely confused what I’m looking at and feel o…
> Something like AMP? “Like AMP”? Well, if you follow the links to get to the dev docs, you land at: https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/?format=s... So, yeah, it is very much like AMP.
https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/02/amp-stories-bringi...
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And let's take a moment of silence in solidarity for all engineers who worked on this when this gets scraped.
I wonder if Google’s turnover is such that when this does inevitably get shuttered, those who worked on it are still at Google.
So to answer your question, probably still at google, just not associated with the "stories" team anymore. It's a game of hot potato where you don't want to be stuck on a team not shipping/innovating since those are the same teams that get spun down (though to be fair it sounds like they just get absorbed onto the "google blob" instead of being let go most of the time).
It's sad that people that are the most passionate are the ones who suffer the most (suffer in terms of not getting funds/time/etc to expand a product they care deeply for and for their troubles get shifted to some other team when Google loses interest in their "baby").
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And let's take a moment of silence in solidarity for all engineers who worked on this when this gets scraped.
And let's also take a moment of silence for everyone who invested time and energy into creating stories only for Google to just not be bothered anymore and switch it off.