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Google Ends Page Speed Service

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Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service

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Post by jccooper »

Kiro wrote: post #7
daok wrote: post #4

One more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.

Honest question: besides Google Reader, what has Google terminated that people actually used?

I used Google Checkout for payment processing, shopping cart, and order management. Having all that in one package was nice during development. It was a really bad day when I heard I had only six months to replace all that.

Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service

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Post by stock_toaster »

Kiro wrote: post #7
daok wrote: post #4

One more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.

Honest question: besides Google Reader, what has Google terminated that people actually used?

xmpp federation

Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service

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Post by radio4fan »

pixelbath wrote: post #17
Kiro wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: besides Google Reader, what has Google terminated that people actually used?

From personal experience: Search API: used to be able to submit keywords and get XML results back, now it's AJAX-only and spits out formatted HTML, only 10 results, and different from real search results. Mostly useful for people involved in SEO. No big loss without it, but just means you have to scrape SERPs instead of getting them nicely bundled up. Desktop: I used it for a while, then found Everything ( http://www…

> Bookmarks: Rolled into Notebook, which was discontinued itself and pushed into Google Docs. So, I guess it's still there, kinda?

Certainly looks like it's there to me: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/

Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service

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Post by pixelbath »

DannyBee wrote: post #28
pixelbath wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From personal experience: Search API: used to be able to submit keywords and get XML results back, now it's AJAX-only and spits out formatted HTML, only 10 results, and different from real search results. Mostly useful for people involved in SEO. No big loss without it, but just means you have to scrape SERPs instead of getting them nicely bundled up. Desktop: I used it for a while, then found Everything ( http://www…

"Desktop: I used it for a while, then found Everything ( http://www.voidtools.com/ ) which is far faster and more responsive. " At the time it was discontinued. Microsoft had made it next to impossible to build your own desktop search. In particular, it was nearly impossible to turn off the indexing service they built (and required user intervention), making GDS slow, and they also started blocking/changing the API's…

Not sure what the problem is with the link; it seems to work fine for me from a few different ISPs.

I meant "go" as in "get axed as a product." I agree that it's likely to roll into Hangouts, since their offerings are trending toward the Google+ apps.

Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service

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Post by talles »

Not directly related to the end of the service but

> The Google Developers website now saves the pages you visit when you are logged into Google. You can quickly access them via the history icon at the top of the site.

What? That's my web browser responsibility...

Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service

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Post by gkya »

Kiro wrote: post #7
daok wrote: post #4

One more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.

Honest question: besides Google Reader, what has Google terminated that people actually used?

There was this app called Location or sth., which they terminated. I did not know about the thing myself until then, but on the HN track there were quite some people declaring it being an integral part of their life. I recall clearly a man telling that he was following the position of his wife via this application, for the wife was somehow working in context of a war--a journalist or sth.--and he wanted to be able to follow her for emergency situations. And other couples who were following each other for some reason. If only I recalled the name of it... But I'm sure someone here will be able to append a link.

edit: Oh, yes, it's Latitude, and the thread I'm referring is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6018554

And the wife is an animal control officer. Less dramatic but equally saddening.

Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service

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Post by daok »

Kiro wrote: post #7
daok wrote: post #4

One more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.

Honest question: besides Google Reader, what has Google terminated that people actually used?

Google Answer, Google Code, iGoogle, Google Reader, Orkut, Wave, Health. Pretty sure they are more... Every 6 months their is an announcement about something like that OR about something that has radical change like Angular 1 to 2 which is really changing. Stability is not something Google products offer to their customers.

Re: Google Ends Page Speed Service

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Post by paralelogram »

Kiro wrote: post #7
daok wrote: post #4

One more product that Google retires. I like Gmail, Google, etc but the way Google deprecate their product start to concern me.

Honest question: besides Google Reader, what has Google terminated that people actually used?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmo5
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