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Re:Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th by _wmd on Saturday February 25, 2017 @09:29AM (#13731716)
Same here, only new thing I touched in 4 years has been GCP, and only then to discover I couldn't use it due to a ridiculous and completely undocumented embargo they implement for users in some countries. Same old Google crap ignoring or failing to understand the customer

"Let's use Hangouts" "Sorry what's that?" "Google's screen sharing" "Just use Skype" "Ok"

Don't forget after investing the entire company into Plus and failing to gain traction, they pulled the rug out from underneath the whole thing. I'm told similar internal focus is now applied to GCP, doesn't mean I wouldn't expect the compny to just one day say "bah, fuck it, we couldn't dominate that, turns out people require something from us beyond engineering, so I'm not playing because I haven't a clue how to do that" again

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Re:Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday February 25, 2017 @10:25AM (#13731921)
> Same old Google crap ignoring or failing to understand the customer

You are the product, not a customer.

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Re:Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th by lallysingh on Saturday February 25, 2017 @10:37AM (#13731974)
That post is about Google cloud, where you're a paying customer and you're not shown ads.
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Re:Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th by DashRattlesnake on Saturday February 25, 2017 @12:25PM (#13732580)
Just curious, but could Google's culture have evolved so that it tends to treat all their users as products by default, even if they're actually not in a particular case? "You are the product, not a customer" applies to most of what they do, and that has to have had an effect.
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Re:Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th by lallysingh on Sunday February 26, 2017 @02:00PM (#13739023)
I'm an ex-googler. It's not that way. Googlers are themselves heavy users of the products.

Ads are treated like any other machine learning problem. The belief is that ads should be (essentially) predicted search results.

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Re:Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th by themihai on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:41AM (#13732303)
The way services are deprecated and prices change makes me feel you are a product, at least if you are early adopter.
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Re:Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th by pzh on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:15AM (#13732166)
Maybe they can offer Google Cloud entirely running on ads, where they inject them at the load balancer. That way they won't have to deal with customer support.
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Re:Google Spaces will be shut down on April 17th by pzh on Saturday February 25, 2017 @12:45PM (#13732711)
Why are you downvoting? This is how search works and it's not like Comcast hasn't tried the other technique either.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.infoworld.com/article/2925839...

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