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The Google Graveyard

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Re: The Google Graveyard

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Post by sbisker »

I was hoping this would be an article about a real Google Graveyard...not for people! but for code. What do large companies like Google do when they kill projects? Surely they don't just rm -rf * the entire machine and repurpose it - do projects like this get archived, and if so, who maintains those archives and why?

Re: The Google Graveyard

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Post by jabakobob »

Only now I realised they shut down Google Code Search. I tried searching something in an Open Source project recently. The search box on Google Code was still there, but it always returned 0 results... It's quite annoying when they just remove a feature and the only way you find out is by browsing Hacker News.

Re: The Google Graveyard

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Post by vwinsyee »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #3
soupboy wrote: post #2

I actually liked the visualization till I saw Google Glass at the bottom. IMO there was no need to do that.

Do you doubt it's going to happen?

Whenever it happens or not, I don't think it was necessary to add a product that hasn't died yet to the graveyard.
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