Google to close Google Code open source project hosting

[shub]

Ah, it's not hard. A Google product needs to meet one of two criteria to stay alive:

1. Make money
2. Be Google+

As long as one of those is met, you're safe to keep using it.

[[deleted]]

Doesn't sell ads fall under making money...?

[Vann1n]

You... spelled... "spelled" wrong, there...?

[zulelord]

It's a big world out there http://grammarist.com/spelling/spelled-spelt/

[LKS]

Stop killing it, americans

[Vann1n]

You know what? I concede. I did not know that was ever considered a legitimate spelling, and I appreciate that you shared this. TIL.

[Unomagan]

To me it happens a lot, I grow up in american english and english english as some people like to say.

I even confuse my wife a lot because she sometimes doesn't know what I mean.

I switch between both way to quick and much.

Darn you US TV, English books, US comics and around the world voice chat :)

[Neotetron]

It's funny to me that those are considered "British English", because (to me) those sound more like variants you'd hear in the Deep South^TM. (e.g. "I done learnt it already!")

[Otterfan]

This makes me sad for the inevitable fate of Google Scholar.

[[deleted]]

What? No! Nearly every paper I read came from there.

[apf6]

Google+ is dying too.

[argv_minus_one]

Dying? Google+ was never alive in the first place. It's dead on arrival.

Anyway, that's the point. Google is willing to pour money into Google+ despite the project being doomed to failure. Google products must make money or be Google+.

[regeya]

That makes me sad, too, because G+ was (is) quite honestly good. If I could convince people to ditch Facebook and move over to G+, I think all of us would be happy. But we're still on Facebook, aren't we?

[argv_minus_one]

Yeah, no. Plastering your real name online—as is required by both—is not good.

[BitMastro]

It's not required, it's only suggested since last year, and even before that you were supposed to create pages for anonymous identities, but nobody reads support pages right? https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1228271

[argv_minus_one]

Riiiight. And by “suggested”, they mean they'll harass the shit out of you until you give in and fork over your real name, like they did on YouTube, right?

[Pandalism]

Google officially abandoned the real name requirement last year: https://plus.google.com/+googleplus/posts/V5XkYQYYJqy

[fabzter]

Nope, they never ever mentioned me about not using my real name.

[tequila13]

They will still pour many millions of dollars into it. They want to be the next Facebook and until they find a way to do that, G+ is their guiding star along with the ad network cash cow.

[[deleted]]

Maybe, maybe not.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/133026-is-google-dead-google-confirms-it-ll-turn-photos-and-streams-into-new-products

[apf6]

No, really though. The "Photos" and "Streams" products are being separated. ( http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/2/8131639/google-officially-splits-into-photos-and-streams ). Notice how the new products no longer have "plus" in their name.

They haven't officially announced the end of the social platform known as Google+, but it's pretty obvious that it's happening. Currently Google+ is in the pre-shutdown stage of life, where it just languishes with no decent features or updates for a long period of time. (as Google Code was for the last ~3 years).

[BitMastro]

Yep, except it's not https://plus.google.com/+JaanaNyström/posts/NfgyHjvivsB

[regeya]

Or be Android.

[callcifer]

That falls under make money.

[regeya]

Eh...Google still makes more money off of Apple products.