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I find this comment very interesting. Recently, there was a similar submission to HN (which I didn't save because I don't care about this need). It was titled
by Raphmedia 7y ago
I find this comment very interesting. Recently, there was a similar submission to HN (which I didn't save because I don't care about this need).
It was titled in a similar vein, something like "We made Google for ...". That time, it was actually the suite and not the search.
Most of the comments were about how people expected to see the search because "Google" is synonym to search.
Seems like you can't win when you compare yourself to something as huge as Google.
- dstick 7y agoYep - I saw that post too. Thanks for pointing that out. Google has come to mean too many things ;-) This was the one I believe: "Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20105567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20105567
- Raphmedia 7y agoYes! Thanks. That post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20108573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20108573
- kohtatsu 7y agoI think it's simpler: "Google for Business" evokes GSuite. "Free and open source Google" evokes search. (The product's name was also Bloom.)