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- technology@beehaw.org
Firing the sales team = less income = some higher up will see declining profits = it will be killed
Google kills everything it touches
https://killedbygoogle.com/ is a great site to see them all. It’s A LOT.
Damn, I missed the news about Google domains. That sucks. Squarespace domain pricing is typically pretty high.
Switch to cloudflare, they recently started with domains
Wait are we sure about Google domains? I literally just saw an ad for it yesterday.
Confirmed by Squarespace: https://domains.squarespace.com/
288 services dead
Pretty sure if this was any other industry there would be a lot of shit thrown, but because its Google they somehow get away with it.
Wait, why the fuck would they kill off Google Domains? It’s incredibly competitive when you compare it to Namecheap and Porkbun imo.
Why are they doing this. Waze was such an amazing tool
They’ve integrated what they want into Maps navigation. Now they want you to switch and be happy about it.
Title is clickbait, they are laying off the ads department and using Google’s.
I dunno, google has a long history of buying competitors then shutting them down, we are all just anticipating it this time.
Do Only Harm
Google cross Reddit when?
Google maps is pretty damn good though - but I do like Waze for road trips
Well that is unfortunate, Waze is a great community that showed what is possible with crowdsourced information and keeping people from getting as many sepeding tickets
Crowdsourcing proprietary software - it ends the same every time. People should just do OpenStreetMaps instead
If you actually care about crowdsourced information, please consider contributing to your local area in OpenStreetMaps. There’s way more to crowdsourcing than just avoiding speeding tickets!
Read the article… It’s transitioning to a different ad team, so cost reduction when only one system for ads is needed. I don’t think this will be cancelled since their community is actively keeping it alive.
Google
Killing a functional product
Is it Tuesday again?
Oh for fuck sake.
Fuck Google. I used Waze since it didnt need a Google account and was still reasonably popular in my area.
If I have to use a Google account for this shit, I dont know what I’d do.
Is there anyone who didn’t see this coming when they first bought Waze?
In my country Waze is the literal go-to app for drivers.
Waze editor here. Based on the article’s content, this post’s title is a bit of an overreaction. Google would be a fool to kill off a platform with more accurate street maps than its core platform, maintained by a vibrant group of volunteers, at least without creating or migrating those tools over to GMaps.
Google: Google remains deeply committed to growing Waze’s unique brand
Also Google: And how are we going to achieve that? By decreasing the workforce that works on waze
Sorry to hear this, I really liked the social aspect of Waze where you could report things you saw on the road.
Oof click bait. They’re just switching ad teams.
Wait, since when does Google own Waze? I thought they were competitors?
It’s been 10 years.
Don’t state your speculation as fact, it’s really bad.
Shouldn’t uneditorilised headlines be a rule around these parts too? Take your hot takes to the comments or the body text.
I’d like to see more Waze features integrated into Google Maps.
A lot of the data is shared back and forth, but yeah the tools are much better in Waze.
The reports of police and obstacles are also super useful and more plentiful then in Gmaps
And that is why Waze has to go away. It’s giving people info on cops, so that’s becoming politically inconvenient for Google.
But you can also report police speed traps on Google Maps too? (At least in the UK not sure if it differs by country)