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Re:Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data by fluffything on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:11PM (#23405857)
Don't forget Google Plus, and that email killer whose name I cannot recall.
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Re:Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data by snazz on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:23PM (#23406009)
Google+ and Wave were both doomed because they were invite-only. If you have to ration invites, it isn't much of a social network. Invite-only successfully created artificial demand for Gmail because invited users could immediately communicate with non-Gmail users. That didn't work for Google+ or Wave since they didn't interoperate with services that people already used.
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Re:Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data by fluffything on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:32PM (#23406123)
If only Google would have had enough data to predict that!
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