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Has a Google product ever been good? - Search (was once good, now just "marginally better than Bing") - Reader (was good, the highest profile victim of Google

by juped 7y ago

Has a Google product ever been good? - Search (was once good, now just "marginally better than Bing") - Reader (was good, the highest profile victim of Google Death Syndrome)

steelframe 7y ago
> Has a Google product ever been good? Uhhh... Maps? Mail? Pixel 2 and 3? Fi? Sheets? Sure, their Cloud doesn't sell as much as Amazon's, but it's been praised as being a much more coherent product. Not sure how anyone could argue that Google hasn't gotten it right several times.
- juped 7y ago
  Maps, thanks. Still pretty good. I agree with none of the others.
  - vonmoltke 7y ago
    I'm just one anecdote, but I love FI and my Pixel 3.
- afishisafish 7y ago
  G-suite (Docs, Drive, ...)
ben_jones 7y ago
Some of the Google Cloud Products are quite good in my opinion. Spanner, BigQuery, GKE. They have pretty high price points, but that's what you get to have with a good product. With GCP Google gets to show off what it is actually top of the world at, with these one-off consumer products Google Employees are just being naive to what their strengths really are.
- juped 7y ago
  I can believe this (I only use AWS so I don't know firsthand).
balls187 7y ago
Over it's history, Google has created many good products, and released a several great ones. Search and Gmail transformed the web. Google Docs and Sheets brought standalone office suite online. App Engine was ahead of it's time for cloud based applications. Google Big Query still is an amazing cloud based way to analyze TB/PB of data cheaply. I'm critical of some of their business practices, but denying quality of Google's products is myopic.
cjvirtucio 7y ago
Inbox was good. And then they killed it for no reason.
pavel_lishin 7y ago
> - Search (was once good, now just "marginally better than Bing") I would phrase it as "other search engines are catching up to Google's capabilities", myself.
sipos 7y ago
> - Search (was once good, now just "marginally better than Bing") It isn't noticeable better than DuckDuckGo, which is a better alternative for privacy reasons.

by juped 7y ago

Has a Google product ever been good? - Search (was once good, now just "marginally better than Bing") - Reader (was good, the highest profile victim of Google Death Syndrome)

steelframe 7y ago

> Has a Google product ever been good? Uhhh... Maps? Mail? Pixel 2 and 3? Fi? Sheets? Sure, their Cloud doesn't sell as much as Amazon's, but it's been praised as being a much more coherent product. Not sure how anyone could argue that Google hasn't gotten it right several times.

juped 7y ago
Maps, thanks. Still pretty good. I agree with none of the others.
- vonmoltke 7y ago
  I'm just one anecdote, but I love FI and my Pixel 3.
afishisafish 7y ago
G-suite (Docs, Drive, ...)

ben_jones 7y ago

Some of the Google Cloud Products are quite good in my opinion. Spanner, BigQuery, GKE. They have pretty high price points, but that's what you get to have with a good product. With GCP Google gets to show off what it is actually top of the world at, with these one-off consumer products Google Employees are just being naive to what their strengths really are.

juped 7y ago
I can believe this (I only use AWS so I don't know firsthand).

balls187 7y ago

Over it's history, Google has created many good products, and released a several great ones. Search and Gmail transformed the web. Google Docs and Sheets brought standalone office suite online. App Engine was ahead of it's time for cloud based applications. Google Big Query still is an amazing cloud based way to analyze TB/PB of data cheaply. I'm critical of some of their business practices, but denying quality of Google's products is myopic.

cjvirtucio 7y ago

Inbox was good. And then they killed it for no reason.

pavel_lishin 7y ago

> - Search (was once good, now just "marginally better than Bing") I would phrase it as "other search engines are catching up to Google's capabilities", myself.

sipos 7y ago

> - Search (was once good, now just "marginally better than Bing") It isn't noticeable better than DuckDuckGo, which is a better alternative for privacy reasons.