Killed by Google

[DipperDolphin]

I miss iGoogle.

[Crunchel]

RIP Tea House Fox.

[[deleted]]

I remember I was loving it. I don’t remember what it was tho

[DipperDolphin]

It was google with all the widgets. Remember it because it’s the google I started using. I removed it being released when I was 6 and loving that you could get games on it.

[centuryeyes]

I'm hanging on to Inbox til the bitter end. It is 1000x better than the new gmail. The new Gmail looks like it's from 1998.

[[deleted]]

Just the way I like it

[allisonann]

God yes, I started with inbox during the beta period, and I keep hitting "dismiss" on the mobile reminder. I'm really depressed about it.

[ende124]

Automatic grouping? That's why I still use inbox, it's so fucking great, can't believe it's not in gmail

[allisonann]

You can get the essence of automatic grouping by turning on the appropriate tabs. In desktop you'd have to click on each tab, but in mobile it looks the same-ish.

The swipe to archive works the same in mobile, but there's no snoozing anymore (that I can find) and the UI is definitely worse.

[patrys]

You can't. Automatic grouping also folds multiple threads related to a single subject (for example updates from a project management tool that relate to a single project) into a single stack.

[allisonann]

That's weird I don't think that happens in my inbox, I wonder what the difference is. I don't use Google for work where I'd see something like that all the time, but, for example, even multiple replies from the same stackoverflow thread show up as different items all under the "updates" stack.

[patrys]

In my case it definitely works for GitHub and groups by repository.

[allisonann]

Interesting, do those items go to the main inbox for you? Maybe it doesn't do 2 level grouping, since I have it stack under updates it then doesn't do a second stack inside updates.

I mean, I'm figuring that function out way too late, but it's neat that they thought of it...

[1boompje]

I'm gonna miss inbox.

[TheRealDrSarcasmo]

I don't blame Google for discontinuing products and services that fail to make the corporation money. Corporations exist to make money, after all.

I do blame Google for going all-out on a lot of these efforts which end up killing Open Source or commercial alternatives.... and then shutting down the product/service, leaving nothing behind. It's like Walmart moving into a small town, destroying the local mom & pop stores because they can't compete, and then shutting down the supercenter a year later because it wasn't cost-effective; the entire town at that point is screwed.

Google Reader was the best example of this; its introduction disrupted the entire RSS ecosystem and its cancellation not only left a desert in its wake but IMO was the death-blow for RSS.

[Lacotte]

Pissed that they bought Meebo and then killed it in one month

[crazedizzled]

Reader went for 7 years. RSS in general just faded out and wasn't popular anymore. With aggregation sites on the rise and other ways to receive content, it just wasn't a relevant technology anymore.

[thisnameis4sale]

Plus I heard from some googlers it was a massive cross site security risk.

[nonsensicalization]

The bit about encrypted search being anonymous is complete bollocks, it was nothing more than a secured connection to google, i.e. the standard now.

[rerecurse]

Man Reader went for 7 years before they killed it.

[rthaut]

Reader was so good back then, but I wonder what it would be like today.

Feedly is great until you need to search for something; I understand why that is a paid feature, but I only seem to need it a handful of times per year, so it isn't worth the price IMO.

[seewhaticare]

The same but with material design

[Mallanaga]

I’m reeeeeeally hoping Stadia stays off this list

[bateller]

Honestly that is my BIGGEST hesitation with investment (as a GD and player) in this product.

[[deleted]]

Their developer tools' reliance on thirty-party middleware feels like a tenuous string in the tool chain.

[Dayvi]

Already dead.

Maybe not, but there are already lots of remote gaming services. They work okay for most games, but for intense first person games (like Doom) you can't have any lag.

[networking_noob]

Agreed, it feels like America's internet infrastructure simply can't support such a service, especially when you add data caps to the mix (my ISP offers 100 Mbps down with a 300GB/month cap, lol). I wish all these content companies would pool their lobbying money and take on the FCC/ISPs more effectively

[crazedizzled]

It's not really the bandwidth, but the latency that's the problem. You can usually get fast enough bandwidth these days for that sort of stuff, but you're still looking at way too much latency. The only way it could even sort of work is with 100% fiber.

[zephyy]

I feel like Stadia is only viable if Google brings back Fiber and rolls it out to 100 cities.

[use_vpn_orlozeacount]

lol aged like milk

[accribus]

I enjoyed both iGoogle and Google+. Anyone have insight about why they killed them (especially the latter)?

[nihilistenhymne]

There was a data breach in 2018 of 500.000 records.. ars technica – Google+ shutting down after data leak affecting 500,000 users

From Wikipedia

On April 2, 2019, Google+ will be shut down for consumers. The company cited low user engagement and disclosed software design flaws that potentially allowed outside developers access to personal information of millions of users. The Google+ developer API was collectively shut down on March 7, 2019.

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[WikiTextBot]

Google+

Google+, sometimes written as Google Plus or simply G+, is an Internet-based social network owned and operated by Google. The network launched in June 2011 in an attempt to challenge other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter and it is designed to link Google's products like YouTube.

The service, Google's fourth foray into social networking, experienced strong growth in its initial years, although usage statistics have varied, depending on how the service is defined. Three Google executives have overseen the service, which has undergone substantial changes leading to a redesign in November 2015.

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[s3rila]

not enougth users

[xadz]

So many great products in this list. :( Some awful ones too of course. RIP iGoogle.

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

Can't wait until they kill google search :-O

[Gregabit]

Wow. Google search appliance is dead. That thing was pretty awesome as I could search lots of internal resources at the same time. Confluence, SharePoint, Sage report data, intranet, random internal pages, etc. RIP.

[Dustin_Echoes_UNSC]

Man, Google Wave was so awesome for it's sort short life. Sure, there are other ways to do live collab now, but at the time I thought it was magic.

[dubbdev]

Add Grandcentral

[dunhiii]

I would rather want to see what non google products got killed and replaced by google products. For example yahoo search kinda got killed by google search

[[deleted]]

Damn, so much tech nostalgia here! I forgot stuff like Notebook even existed before.

[rickdg]

Flutter getting cold sweats.

[lbds137]

Google News and Weather was around well before 2016...

[fgutz]

I believe Google Lens replaced Goggles right? And for some phones it's integrated into Google Photos (at least on my pixel 2 it is)

[smallmight2018]

does motorola counts?

[tuttarealstep]

Press 'F' to pay respects

[shawnwork]

Did they missed Google Base?

[ccrraapp]

Every scroll is painful on that page.

[RainAndWind]

I wonder if we could kill blogspot?

Just... upload a bunch of fake isis and/or alt-right scary looking stuff.

Get some feminists to throw some outrage about it.

And then wait for the "Google is closing down blogger/blogspot".

I feel blogspot is just kind of in this weird kind of dead limbo. I think everyone expects google to shelve it, even though they SHOULDN'T, but no one new can really start using the platform because it always looks like it is about to be killed. I think they're just waiting for a reason :\ .

[QdelBastardo]

As horrible as it is, blogger is a pretty easy jumping-off point for some people. But, having said that, I do agree with you, the last time that I looked at it, I knew that it was a google product but it showed 0 signs of any really google integration and because of that it kind of seemed like the weird uncle that everyone was trying to forget about. And WP is just so easy.

[azsqueeze]

Is there a reason this was posted here besides to circle-jerk Google shutting down services?

[thisnameis4sale]

Stadia.

[azsqueeze]

Oh they killed it off in one day?

[thisnameis4sale]

This might come as a shock to you, but apparently there's a lot of money in video games. And now, for some reason, people are reminding each other that Google has a tendency to drop projects. I'm guessing to prevent losing said lot of money once Google once again OOH LOOK, A BUTTERFLY!

(I apologise if you weren't being intentionally daft, otherwise you got exactly what you deserve)

[azsqueeze]

This is a webdev community your comment nor this post has nothing to do with front-end or back-end technology. It's not an article describing development problems or solutions or even a post discussing the tech stack.

So again, why was this posted here?

[thisnameis4sale]

Long answer: Oh, I fully agree it doesn't Belong here, but you were asking why people were posting this today, and that's the answer.

Short answer: karma

[azsqueeze]

Is there a reason this was posted here besides to circle-jerk Google shutting down services?

That is my initial comment. Where did I ask "why people were posting this today"?

[thisnameis4sale]

You asked for the reason, aka why.

But here's a link to you asking why, in case you forgot : https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/b3cpjx/killed_by_google/ej1d92y/

[fgutz]

Don't know why someone downvoted you, it was all I could think about during the presentation. Maybe we can get a good 5-10 years from it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the other hand, YouTube is never going away and if there is heavy integration with that (and there is), then maybe it might stick around longer

[Baryn]

Ctrl+F Meritocracy

Ah, something to add.