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> Google keeps a large suite of in-house built, enormously useful products alive and still manages to move them forward incrementally. FB has done nothing usefu
by skinkestek 5y ago
> Google keeps a large suite of in-house built, enormously useful products alive and still manages to move them forward incrementally. FB has done nothing useful for me since I signed up in 2004.
I despised Facebook before everyone else but seriously:
Google is extremely well known for killing useful stuff that people love, not for moving them forward incrementally.
I can't remember Facebook killing off anything since parsley or whatever it was called.
Google has also been going backwards since I don't know, 2009 or something? (Back in the day it used to be that search results somewhat reliably contained the the you searched for. Today Google is in my opinion a copy of the competitors they outcompeted: customer hostile ads, poor results.)
Facebook is the ugly thing it has been since I don't know when.
- civilized 5y agoGoogle has killed about 5x more things people love than FB has created. But they still keep a lot of core products alive.
- skinkestek 5y agoOk, I admit you have a good point. I counted the ones I can remember: - search (although this one barely qualifies in my opinion) - GMail/GSuite (once provided ever increasing storage, also killed free GSuite etc etc but I'll count it, it exists and has even expanded a bit) - YouTube - Ads - Android - Chrome Quite a portfolio actually. Says something about how much I dislike them when I had to think long and hard to admit it.
- Jensson 5y agoMaps and docs as well. While Facebook is the king of time wasting apps, Google is the king of useful apps. They might abuse their role a bit, but at least the products are things that helps people.
- skinkestek 5y agoAnd now that I think of it GCP is still alive, for now at least.