8 points

I’ve only ever seen goog.le looks used in spam and phishing emails, so I’m not particularly sad about this

Of course, there’s roughly eighty million other folks who think they’ve each done a short link provider better, somehow, so this won’t make much of a difference beyond not relying on the bots at Google to deal with abuse problems.

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59 points

Every month Google reminds us not to depend on their services.

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30 points

Who could have foreseen this

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I skim this page every time it is posted, but this time scrolling the whole length of it even as fast as I can gave me depression. 295 projects, almost half of them killed in the last 5 years.

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I don’t think any other company is based on trial and error to the same degree as Google.
It’s kind of funny, since Google was originally based on hiring the greatest capacities within their field. So you should think they were pretty smart.
But trial and error is actually the LEAST INTELLIGENT method to solve a problem.

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I think they’re mostly doing it to get the attention of investors. New products are exciting. It shows the company is growing.

Look at our new self driving car we will definitely release within the next year! Or how about these stupid looking glasses?

But now investors have become more concerned about profitability, so most tech companies are focusing on cutting the costs.

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They have one? I just use tinyurl.

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