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For this, how is it different than a webpage? Why would I do whatever this is instead of just making a webpage with the same content?
Is it just the interface where you swipe from one to the next? Is that supposed to be some amazing innovation?
Google Story will become History in a year. Why bother?
I used to be the first to any new Google tech. Android, google Fi, google play music, and on and on. Now, I'm working towards degoogling entirely.
What are people getting out of stories? I look at them sometimes on Instagram and I don't understand how this is better than just putting the same images in a post. I guess I'm old now and I don't get what these wacky kids are doing. For this, how is it different than a webpage? Why would I do whatever this is instead of just making a webpage with the same content? Is it just the interface where you swipe from one to…
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.
The non-cynical take is that "stories" is the first content format since the "feed" that is really sticky and opens a new avenue for user interaction. Everyone is adopting them because is now clear that it's not a fad. Consumers understand the concept of stories and actually engage heavily with them so nobody wants to miss out. Of course not all the implementations are good or useful, but from a user interaction pers…
More importantly, this is still driven by one or two big players using this format. If those players decide to innovate with the format, it could radically alter how people feel about it and it could lose in popularity, or it could change enough that Google's implementation becomes irrelevant unless they alter it significantly as well (which then gives more work downstream, which could make publishers stop bothering with it if they ever did).
This feels super fragile and tbh looks more like a desperate play from Google than an adoptive one.
In fact, you know what an adoptive one would look like to me? Having google start seriously indexing stories and be able to show them in rich media results.
I think the difference is: one approach is ad driven, one is search driven.
THANK YOU TITLE for calling this Google Stories. 100% yes. Google Web Stories, if you must include the Web part of the proper name.
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.
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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.
But does Google Search have an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp yet?