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Re: Google Stories

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Post by dhnajsjdnd »

aerovistae wrote: post #16

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.

So they should take the Google name off it?

Re: Google Stories

#22

Post by nullsense »

aerovistae wrote: post #16

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.

It seems their brand is "socially awkward media"

Re: Google Stories

#23

Post by bmmayer1 »

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, is voice search where Alexa / Siri are truly competitive.

Re: Google Stories

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Post by stingraycharles »

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 old right now.

Re: Google Stories

#26

Post by searchableguy »

Stories are popular because they can be quickly viewed. I don't know anyone in real life who has the attention span to read anything more than a 500 words article without graphics in it everywhere.

This is a natural extension of web.

Re: Google Stories

#27

Post by pea »

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…

I came to make the exact same comment - what on earth is this?

Re: Google Stories

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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