Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by the-pigeon on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:13PM (#21816615)

Worst than that. Google only seems interested in huge successes.

Things like Google Reader had healthy user bases when Google came for them in the night.

They could even sell most of the products they murder to someone else for millions.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by dave5104 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:36PM (#21816944)

> Things like Google Reader had healthy user bases when Google came for them in the night.

I wonder if anyone in Google management ever looks back and regrets that decision?

It's still always being brought up, even 6.5 years later.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by sylens on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:52PM (#21817167)

It was the end of the halo effect for Google amongst the prosumer crowd, definitely.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by bhl on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:13PM (#21817458)

I always see google reader talked about on hackernews, but has a comparable product not have been made by someone else yet?

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by lallysingh on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:44PM (#21817841)

There are plenty, actually. But RSS itself is essentially dead. At least compared to what it was.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by Multicomp on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:41PM (#21820274)

So I just counted my RSS feeds via Live Bookmarks (dang you Firefox for killing them shakes cane) and I have 60+(! I expected like 30 tops) RSS feeds that I check regularly.

Most sites have RSS feeds, even the heavy hitters like YouTube.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by juped on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:24PM (#21819000)

How is it dead? Everything still exports RSS feeds.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by lallysingh on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:30AM (#21825801)

The last time I tried RSS again (I was a big reader user), every feed had a on paragraph summary and link to the full article on the website.

I couldn't actually read the news in it anymore.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by vkou on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:55PM (#21817996)

Nothing that is widely used, because as it turns out, RSS is not the web technology of the future. Or the present, really.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by deegles on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:10PM (#21818188)

Side note, I remember the next 5 or so most popular alternatives to Reader being overloaded for weeks after the shutdown.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by NikkiA on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:58PM (#21820400)

I still use feedly almost daily.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by res0nat0r on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:05PM (#21817346)

I'm guessing that the current revenue of GCP vs. Google Reader tells management that they made a smart decision.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by harryh on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:29PM (#21816840)

They could even sell most of the products they murder to someone else for millions.

It would have cost Google more money to sell Reader than anyone would have bought it for.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:49PM (#21817113)

That's a statement that cries out for analysis, although I'm not doubting you could be right still - it's not the kind of thing one just states without backing it up.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by harryh on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:01PM (#21817301)

Reader was written using a bunch of proprietary Google tools, deployed on proprietary Google infrastructure and used a proprietary Google system for authentication.

It's hard to even imagine how it could have been split apart from the mothership at all.

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:05PM (#21818136)

Thanks!

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by UncleMeat on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:12PM (#21818892)

Where is RSS now? Are there products that filled the niche left by Reader?

No. The technology died. Isn't this clear evidence that the product was dead in the water?

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Re:Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microso... by juped on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:25PM (#21819020)

It's literally in a <link> element on the very website you're posting on, dude

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