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Already counting the days until this inevitably gets killed. I've been burned too many times to rely on Google for anything, except tracking me and pushing ads,
by jwr 3y ago
Already counting the days until this inevitably gets killed. I've been burned too many times to rely on Google for anything, except tracking me and pushing ads, which they indeed do better every day.
- LightBug1 3y ago[flagged]
- coeus77 3y agoWhere did you see the announcement they sunset it?
- ddalex 3y agoIn an effort to accelerate the development life-cycle, Google will now release sunset announcements before the product release.
- blagie 3y agoI saw that announcement, but I thought they changed their mind about a week before it was announced?
- halfmatthalfcat 3y agoThey're sunsetting the sunset?
- occamrazor 3y agoScholar is heavily used internally, it’s unlikely to be discontinued even if it has never brought any money to Google.
- kadoban 3y agoThis is about a PDF reader though, not Google Scholar itself.
- biofox 3y agoGoogle Reader and RSS feeds were also heavily used internally :(
- tibbydudeza 3y agoWhat replaced it - Google Wave ???.
- cityhall 3y agoI wonder if their real intent is to gather training data on which parts of papers are considered important by readers, and which topics are related to each other.
- bookofjoe 3y agoEven so, isn't something better than nothing?
- fattybob 3y agoTotally agree, seems all Google stuff has a life expectancy countdown
- moritz64 3y agogoogle has worked hard to earn this reputation. i don't want to rely on any part of the google ecosystem anymore.