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

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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