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I don't think the author's conclusion necessarily flows from the facts. Going back to the hypothesis that it was too difficult to maintain so they pulled it see
by SoftwareMaven 14y ago
I don't think the author's conclusion necessarily flows from the facts. Going back to the hypothesis that it was too difficult to maintain so they pulled it seems just as likely. The argument that pulling down the help page is the smoking gun is just false. If they pulled the feature, of course they'd pull the documentation.
Alternatively, google may have pulled it to keep China from axing them completely so other Chinese citizens could keep using https/gmail/etc and not get censored, pretty much the opposite conclusion.
- percyalpha 14y agoGoogle used two ways to implement the function. One is external linking to js file which could be easily blocked, another is embedding, which couldn't be block(and Google knew it). When we wrote this article, they switched from embedding back to external linking perhaps to make the function easily blockable.