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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.