Google Stories

Post by fluidcruft » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 12:58 AM UTC

jorgesborges wrote: post #105

freediver wrote: post #7

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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 have the unfortunate inkling that this is here to stay. In hindsight it seems obvious that Google Search will implement the most successful and ubiquitous features of social media. I don't like it, but the pressure this will create for companies to compete in this space will be huge.

Post by fluidcruft » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 1:02 AM UTC

bmmayer1 wrote: post #23

scrollaway wrote: post #9

Wow, I guess this is what FOMO looks like when taken to the b2c megacorp level. It feels like a safe bet that this is Google+ all over again, and it'll fail just as badly. But hey, set a 5 year reminder and I'll happily take the "I was wrong" on this if I indeed am.

An interesting hot take I read a while back (that I can't find) was that Google's strategy is generally "compete with every company on every product in order to build a moat, so that no one can touch search, which is the actual castle." And if you think about it makes a lot of sense -- Google competes with almost every other tech company on something, but no one competes with Google on search. The exception, perhaps,…

Post by rektide » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 1:11 AM UTC

Post by rektide » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 1:14 AM UTC

dessant wrote: post #138

stingraycharles wrote: post #24

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? This is literally AMP [1]. The feature was launched as AMP Stories, which has now been rebranded to Web Stories. They are throwing everything at the wall to increase the use of AMP. [1] https://amp.dev/about/stories/

Post by tamrix » Fri, Dec 11, 2020, 1:20 AM UTC

gcblkjaidfj wrote: post #95

ljm wrote: post #80

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So, another AMP-style thing where Google uses their platform and network effect to further encroach on the open web and turn it into the Google web? The quote you see at first is: "Stories meet their widest audience ever." Given that the widest audience is anyone who wants to search for something, this seems like a massive anti-trust bait. Also, hard-pass on the continual dumbing down of content to contribute to the…

> AMP it's Google one AMPing (heh) Amazon's alexa actions. You develop content they can shove in their Voice/Phone "AI" Assistants, and they throw some organic search scraps your way. The end goal of those companies (goog, amz, appl, fb) is to be the new AOL. And the plan is the same as AOL in the 90s: controlling the new browser (the App du jour used to run searchs and scroll mindless content)