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by hliyan 9y ago

Google Talk Google Notebook Google Reader Google Buzz Google Wave Google Plus Google Health Google Knol Google SearchWiki Google Allo I'm not really sure if I want to get onboard with this new thing.

benevol 9y ago
Google Analytics - that thing that everybody "is used by", on every website, and without even knowing [0] or explicit consent. [0] techies exempt.
- deleted 9y ago
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- reitanqild 9y ago
  To add to that: they bought that. It used to be called Urchin I think.
  - geerlingguy 9y ago
    Yep, that’s where the ‘UTM’ in all the query strings comes from, Urchin Traffic Monitor I think it was. I used to have the standalone version installed which worked locally on servers and was completely independent of Google, but looked identical to Google Analytics at that time. Of course, Google realized they couldn’t mine any of the tracking data from the standalone version, so that was axed around like 2008 or 2009.
    - neurobashing 9y ago
      Urchin's original mode of operation was as a cron job that scanned your correctly-formatted Apache access_log (via LogFormat stanza) and dumped them into a DB. So there's issues of scale that had to be dealt with, and they decided to just dump it and go w/ the tracking JS.
redog 9y ago
hangouts
ac29 9y ago
And the list of Google products that haven't been killed off numbers in the hundreds. Seriously, what large software development company hasn't ended development on some of its products? People dragging out Google Reader every time Google launches something new is getting old.
bitmapbrother 9y ago
Do you also say the same thing about Microsoft products and services? https://pastebin.com/5tYG5YCL https://pastebin.com/5tYG5YCL
- hliyan 9y ago
  Good point. a. Some of these hark back to the 90's so they were superseded than discontinued b. Some are actually comparable to Google's discontinuations

by hliyan 9y ago

Google Talk Google Notebook Google Reader Google Buzz Google Wave Google Plus Google Health Google Knol Google SearchWiki Google Allo I'm not really sure if I want to get onboard with this new thing.

benevol 9y ago

Google Analytics - that thing that everybody "is used by", on every website, and without even knowing [0] or explicit consent. [0] techies exempt.

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reitanqild 9y ago
To add to that: they bought that. It used to be called Urchin I think.
- geerlingguy 9y ago
  Yep, that’s where the ‘UTM’ in all the query strings comes from, Urchin Traffic Monitor I think it was. I used to have the standalone version installed which worked locally on servers and was completely independent of Google, but looked identical to Google Analytics at that time. Of course, Google realized they couldn’t mine any of the tracking data from the standalone version, so that was axed around like 2008 or 2009.
  - neurobashing 9y ago
    Urchin's original mode of operation was as a cron job that scanned your correctly-formatted Apache access_log (via LogFormat stanza) and dumped them into a DB. So there's issues of scale that had to be dealt with, and they decided to just dump it and go w/ the tracking JS.

redog 9y ago

hangouts

ac29 9y ago

And the list of Google products that haven't been killed off numbers in the hundreds. Seriously, what large software development company hasn't ended development on some of its products? People dragging out Google Reader every time Google launches something new is getting old.

bitmapbrother 9y ago

Do you also say the same thing about Microsoft products and services? https://pastebin.com/5tYG5YCL https://pastebin.com/5tYG5YCL

hliyan 9y ago
Good point. a. Some of these hark back to the 90's so they were superseded than discontinued b. Some are actually comparable to Google's discontinuations