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I honestly don't know why people still use Google products. They have the worst track record I have ever seen.

by ezekg 5y ago

arthur_sav 5y ago
People are starting to realise. I'm starting a project and while i prefer google's cloud platform - i'm gonna use AWS. They have no respect for their users.
spankalee 5y ago
I bet 99.99% of users never used Google Bookmarks. It will have been available for 16 years. You have to be able sunset unused products at some point.
- aeturnum 5y ago
  So I don't know if we have reliable numbers for how many people use Google, but it's probably in the billions. 0.01% of 1,000,000,000 people is 100,000. So I see what you're saying but also calling it unused based on a 0.01% use rate at Google's scale is also silly. I get that they aren't going to keep every service, but they have over 100,000 employees and it's hard for me to believe that they can't spare an engineer to adopt the project (which would be the proportionate number for a 0.01% use rate).
  - edoceo 5y ago
    Or they could put that engineer on Ads and get revenue. They care about Cash more than Users.
    - aeturnum 5y ago
      Certainly that's the way to maximize short term returns, but at some point you're selling the future to marginally improve the present. Hard to imagine that one engineer makes much of a difference to search at this point. Like, I agree that Goog has abandoned a user-centered approach, but even the most cynical approach has some diversification.
- cpcallen 5y ago
  The real question is: why did the Chrome developers create their own, totally incompatible bookmark syncing system instead of using the already established Google Bookmarks service?
  - prirai 5y ago
    It's of no profit to google.
paxys 5y ago
Google doesn't even have the worst track record of the top 5 tech companies.
- skinnymuch 5y ago
  Who does? Genuine question. Also how would you rank the top 5 tech companies in terms of shutting down track record? I would have said Yahoo was awful, but they haven’t been part of the big tech crowd in a long time.

I honestly don't know why people still use Google products. They have the worst track record I have ever seen.

by ezekg 5y ago

I honestly don't know why people still use Google products. They have the worst track record I have ever seen.

People are starting to realise. I'm starting a project and while i prefer google's cloud platform - i'm gonna use AWS. They have no respect for their users.

spankalee 5y ago

I bet 99.99% of users never used Google Bookmarks. It will have been available for 16 years. You have to be able sunset unused products at some point.

aeturnum 5y ago
So I don't know if we have reliable numbers for how many people use Google, but it's probably in the billions. 0.01% of 1,000,000,000 people is 100,000. So I see what you're saying but also calling it unused based on a 0.01% use rate at Google's scale is also silly. I get that they aren't going to keep every service, but they have over 100,000 employees and it's hard for me to believe that they can't spare an engineer to adopt the project (which would be the proportionate number for a 0.01% use rate).
- edoceo 5y ago
  Or they could put that engineer on Ads and get revenue. They care about Cash more than Users.
  - aeturnum 5y ago
    Certainly that's the way to maximize short term returns, but at some point you're selling the future to marginally improve the present. Hard to imagine that one engineer makes much of a difference to search at this point. Like, I agree that Goog has abandoned a user-centered approach, but even the most cynical approach has some diversification.
cpcallen 5y ago
The real question is: why did the Chrome developers create their own, totally incompatible bookmark syncing system instead of using the already established Google Bookmarks service?
- prirai 5y ago
  It's of no profit to google.

paxys 5y ago

Google doesn't even have the worst track record of the top 5 tech companies.

skinnymuch 5y ago
Who does? Genuine question. Also how would you rank the top 5 tech companies in terms of shutting down track record? I would have said Yahoo was awful, but they haven’t been part of the big tech crowd in a long time.