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Google Communications says here that Verily (a sister company to Google) is working on a small scale tool for the Bay area: https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/sta
by calebrob6 7y ago
Google Communications says here that Verily (a sister company to Google) is working on a small scale tool for the Bay area: https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238574670686928906 https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238574670686928906
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoYou: > for the Bay area Them (in the Tweet you linked to): > ... with the hope of expanding more broadly over time.
- Turing_Machine 7y agoGoogle Communications says here that "Google is partnering with the US Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk and testing information." https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238989460127338497 https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238989460127338497
- zaroth 7y agoWill everyone who blasted Trump in this entire post apologize? Don’t hold your breathe.
- jjeaff 7y agoIf I could make a list of the people least deserving of an apology, Trump would be near the top.
- jshevek 7y agoPeople with integrity apologize based on their own actions, not their opinions of the qualities of the other party. I apologise to douchebags regularly, if I'm wrong, though I'm very clear about the limitations of the apology.
- zaroth 7y agoNo, no not apologizing to Trump. Apologizing to HN readers for spreading the fake news even after Google themselves came out with a statement saying that they are in fact doing what Trump announced.
- jpster 7y agoNo. Did you actually watch the press conference? What Trump announced is what Verily is building. But he implied it would be nationwide. It’s not. > Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk and testing information. This sounds like it’s in addition to what Verily is building. So I doubt it’s the diagnostic and get to testing site function that Verily’s working on.
- zaroth 7y agoIt’s absolutely separate from the Verily work, because they explicitly say that. Other than that all we know is it’s “information about COVID symptoms, risk, and testing information”. Which at least aligns roughly with what was announced on Friday.
- tathougies 7y agoVerily is an Alphabet subsidiary. To the majority of Americans, 'Alphabet' is Google, because Alphabet is the successor organization to Google the company. All these ridiculous technicalities are nuts. No one cares that Alphabet decided to reorganize to maximize shareholder value. Alphabet is literally Google, and still trades under that ticker (GOOG). When people talk about Google the company, they mean Alphabet, and you know that. Like, most people on HN talk about how 'Google Fiber' is part of Google, but really it's not, it's part of Alphabet, which owns the trademark Google. Or again, when GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) invests in a company, people say 'Google invested in <blah> company', because GV is alphabet, which is Google because... Google the company means Alphabet in common parlance. Stop nitpicking.
- umanwizard 7y agoThe important part is not google vs alphabet, it’s the fact that their site will only be available for the Bay Area.
- threeseed 7y agoAnd that there isn't 1700 people working on it.
- tathougies 7y agoGood point. The most important part of the speech is the number of engineers working on it. If we have 1699 it might not work but if only we could know we had 1700 then we would all be saved /s.
- threeseed 7y agoNumber of engineers is a sign of the scale and significance of the project.
- koheripbal 7y agoinitially.