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Re: Google Saves

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Post by ethanbond » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:05 AM UTC

tombert wrote: post #3

The problem I have with Google tech, especially after the new Nest stuff has to come to light, is that there's no guarantee they'll support it for very long. It's entirely possible that I'll incorporate this into my workflow, just for Google to kill it off a year later.

Yeah this is way too niche, ill-defined, and overlapping with existing products to ever survive.

Why don't they just make a convenient set of clients or extensions to map into a product that's not going to disappear next quarter, like Drive/Docs/whateverthehellitisnow.

Re: Google Saves

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Post by quanticle » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:05 AM UTC

idreyn wrote: post #4

Feels like they missed a prime opportunity for Keep integration here.

I feel like this will either be integrated into Keep in a year's time, or Keep will be integrated into Saves in a year's time.

Re: Google Saves

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Post by wnevets » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:06 AM UTC

how about google save google wallet?

Re: Google Saves

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Post by verloop » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:06 AM UTC

Leads to 404 for me.

Re: Google Saves

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Post by ank_the_elder » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:07 AM UTC

HappyTypist wrote: post #8

This seems like some project manager's 20% project.

My thoughts precisely.

Re: Google Saves

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Post by tomc1985 » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:08 AM UTC

Oh, you mean Google Stop-Downloading-Our-Precious-Image-Search-Results?

Re: Google Saves

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Post by mdamore » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:08 AM UTC

tombert wrote: post #3

The problem I have with Google tech, especially after the new Nest stuff has to come to light, is that there's no guarantee they'll support it for very long. It's entirely possible that I'll incorporate this into my workflow, just for Google to kill it off a year later.

I hesitate to start using it for the same reasons. If it does catch on I would think Evernote has the most to lose here.

Despite reports of them struggling I don't see any clear competitors, but a central repository for all of my "saves" with tags and powerful search could give Evernote a run for their money.

Re: Google Saves

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Post by dewiz » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:09 AM UTC

tombert wrote: post #3

The problem I have with Google tech, especially after the new Nest stuff has to come to light, is that there's no guarantee they'll support it for very long. It's entirely possible that I'll incorporate this into my workflow, just for Google to kill it off a year later.

Indeed, this the Experiment phase, after which comes Excitement and later Estinguish.

I stopped getting into these tests and rely on established, often non free, services.

Plus I don't see what this one in particular has to offer compared to Evernote and One note.

Re: Google Saves

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Post by daveguy » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:11 AM UTC

wnevets wrote: post #23

how about google save google wallet?

Hah. Wouldn't it be nice if you could put any arbitrary Google service in there. Final twist would be the service that saves the services would be deprecated. All of them would disappear at once! Although I think Google trashing Google saves would be more negative publicity than usual.

Re: Google Saves

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Post by mkhalil » Thu, Apr 07, 2016, 2:12 AM UTC

tombert wrote: post #3

The problem I have with Google tech, especially after the new Nest stuff has to come to light, is that there's no guarantee they'll support it for very long. It's entirely possible that I'll incorporate this into my workflow, just for Google to kill it off a year later.

Before even clicking on the comments, I knew this was going to be top comment. And it just goes to show how bad it's gotten lately.

But then I think of all the other stuff Google does for free. A company that has so many products and offerings is just bound to have a few that they shut down.

Some of them are inexcusable though.