Google Domains to shut down
Google Domains to shut down
The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t notify customers just yet. When could this happen, and why is Google silent?
I'm still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.
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Don't build on or depend on google products.. That is the message they are sending
Seriously. They have been sending this message out for more than a decade now. Every new Google product or service that is any good will be shut down at short notice just when people start getting used to it. Only the search engine and Gmail endure.
People think Google is in the business of providing services. They aren't. They're in the business of data collection and their services exist to facilitate that. Useful data dries up, service shuts down, every time. It sounds harsh but people who still use Google services are just setting themselves up to get fucked over.
Google is in whatever business they decide to be, and saying that they're expected to leave abruptly because the well dried up is not an acceptable answer. Ultimately it just tarnishes the brand and dooms whatever new things they try to venture into. Stadia never got off the ground for this very reason.
Google's not going to be able to collect a lot of data if no one trusts them to run a service for more than a couple years. Hell, can I even trust them to keep Chromium going at this point!? Surely they won't let that waterfall of data dry up...
Nah man, the future belongs to the people most capable of providing tools, advice and knowledge to create further data, utility, infrastructure, etc, always has been.
Google search engine was just one piece of the puzzle.
RIP inbox
Yes you said new product now they are killing established products. This has been out for just under a decade.
Yeah nah that's just the places like YouTube, that they can throw the most advertising at, the issue is that they're not muscling into any other avenues for income, e.g. Google Cloud, YouTube Music, Google Music Studios etc, shared specialised platform for music production and computing hardware, with more exclusive use of Golang tools etc, Vs AWS, a general all purpose solution.
Yup. I migrated everything out of Google when they killed Listen. Was on the edge after Inbox, but Listen was the last straw. They don't know how to keep great products alive, and I'm tired of getting suckered punched by them.
Exceptions are Android (because there's no other options) and Angular/Golang, because they would survive being abandoned by Google. Hell, they'd probably improve!
This site is interesting... every time you reload it, the short blurb about each tool changes. Is it using a llm, or do they write alts that get served at random?