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I give it a year before the project gets canned. Google is great at tools and utilities (e.g. Maps, Gmail) but whenever they try their hand at something that in

I give it a year before the project gets canned. Google is great at tools and utilities (e.g. Maps, Gmail) but whenever they try their hand at something that involves the human soul, they fail at attracting regular people. For all of Pinterest's faults, at least their branding is such that most people don't see it as a generic giant corporation.

buboard 6y ago
They just want to displace pinterest's SEO from their image search results. This could actually be useful for them
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  I think they've also done some stuff at different times to displace Facebook from somewhere or other, anyway my bet is as follows: this is someone's project to get noticed for being innovative and moved on to somewhere else with more money and then this gets staffed with people not on the fast track who will try their best to get out of it and finally it will close down and if anyone has been suckered into using it they will write an article about how Google closed it down and then HN will repeat the ever expanding list of things Google has closed down. Something may have just made me cynical about Google products though.
- grogenaut 6y ago
  Maybe just stop linking to pinterest pages or images and just link to the real pages pinterest is taking from? Pinterest is such a dark pattern of 7 clicks to actually see the damned image in google results.
- logicslave 6y ago
  The interesting thing is google knows alot about what is popular on pintrest
- ericd 6y ago
  That's how you inch towards antitrust.
s3r3nity 6y ago
> For all of Pinterest's faults, at least their branding is such that most people don't see it as a generic giant corporation. There's also a general faith that Pinterest will actually keep their service open in a few years. With Google, it's a crap-shoot if it gets any updates 6 months from now. EDIT: after reading more about "Keen," and trying it a bit, my bet is that it will be like Google Spaces - an interesting idea with some utility, but will die out because they won't have "Google scale" engagement to keep funding it. EDIT 2: I also learned that Google Collections is the exact same thing. This is Hangouts vs. Allo vs. Duo vs. Spaces all over again.

buboard 6y ago

They just want to displace pinterest's SEO from their image search results. This could actually be useful for them

bryanrasmussen 6y ago
I think they've also done some stuff at different times to displace Facebook from somewhere or other, anyway my bet is as follows: this is someone's project to get noticed for being innovative and moved on to somewhere else with more money and then this gets staffed with people not on the fast track who will try their best to get out of it and finally it will close down and if anyone has been suckered into using it they will write an article about how Google closed it down and then HN will repeat the ever expanding list of things Google has closed down. Something may have just made me cynical about Google products though.
grogenaut 6y ago
Maybe just stop linking to pinterest pages or images and just link to the real pages pinterest is taking from? Pinterest is such a dark pattern of 7 clicks to actually see the damned image in google results.
logicslave 6y ago
The interesting thing is google knows alot about what is popular on pintrest
ericd 6y ago
That's how you inch towards antitrust.

s3r3nity 6y ago

> For all of Pinterest's faults, at least their branding is such that most people don't see it as a generic giant corporation. There's also a general faith that Pinterest will actually keep their service open in a few years. With Google, it's a crap-shoot if it gets any updates 6 months from now. EDIT: after reading more about "Keen," and trying it a bit, my bet is that it will be like Google Spaces - an interesting idea with some utility, but will die out because they won't have "Google scale" engagement to keep funding it. EDIT 2: I also learned that Google Collections is the exact same thing. This is Hangouts vs. Allo vs. Duo vs. Spaces all over again.