Re^2: Google scripts, google, and email

Nice… and uncanny how much of it I played around with and didn’t even know was gone. Zeitgeist alone retired in 2007. News to me. Say… good news, really. Google has largely wormed its way out of my life with that graveyard. They had the hooks in really deep at one point.

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Re^3: Google scripts, google, and email by LanX (Saint) on Oct 11, 2022 at 16:38 UTC
The service I miss the most is "Google Code Search", I found it an extremely useful way for google to pay back to the OS community. (shame on them) Not sure in which way "Google Site Search" died, heavyweights like the guardian newspaper and perlmonks still have customized searches using google. And in all fairness it's also a graveyard of many experimental services which aimed to attack similar competitors and those markets are very "highlander'ish". No wonder they died after loosing the fight. For instance: I organized meetings with my old schoolmates (communications, reunion pics, address database, etc ) with "Yahoo! Groups", a glorified mailing list with boards and upload areas. Reason was that Yahoo was too dumb to monetize our data, but on the other side too big to fail. This strategy worked for 15 years, till they shut down. Now I'm very reluctant to move that stuff to FB. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]

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Re^3: Google scripts, google, and email
by LanX (Saint) on Oct 11, 2022 at 16:38 UTC

Not sure in which way "Google Site Search" died, heavyweights like the guardian newspaper and perlmonks still have customized searches using google.

And in all fairness it's also a graveyard of many experimental services which aimed to attack similar competitors and those markets are very "highlander'ish". No wonder they died after loosing the fight.

For instance: I organized meetings with my old schoolmates (communications, reunion pics, address database, etc ) with "Yahoo! Groups", a glorified mailing list with boards and upload areas.

Reason was that Yahoo was too dumb to monetize our data, but on the other side too big to fail. This strategy worked for 15 years, till they shut down.

Now I'm very reluctant to move that stuff to FB.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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