Reddit alternative? Google introduces Perspectives, a search feed with results from humans

Google is trying something new on the search feed

TWO YEARS LATER: Perspectives will be shut down …

Two years is too generous. 6 months later unofficially dropped support, 1 year later introduce some stupid redesign and some functionality that lowers user experience, and then 2 years later is merged with some other random Google service.

2 years later… “Good news! Perspective has now been organically merged with Google Search”

I’m still waiting for all the stuff from inbox to make it to the rest of Gmail.

If people are looking for alternatives that won’t be shut down, you… recommend they look to Google!? Ahahahahaha!

Seriously, the graveyard is pretty extensive: https://killedbygoogle.com/

I’m still bitter that they killed Inbox. It was superior to Gmail in every way.

It really was. I miss inbox.

Oh man, I knew there were a lot but I had no idea.

I remember when Google Wave was demo’ed to a live audience, there were audible ooohs and aaahs from the crowd. It was such a mindblowing idea 14 years ago, shame it never really got off the ground.

Two things killed it.

First, it was a slow resource hog. Second, it was productivity software at a time when work IM was hard to get people to use.

Google wave wasn’t really killed. It’s functionality is pretty much built into google docs.

And they won’t stop until they kill killedbygoogle by having it run out of storage space.

Guys we swear this time is different. We are totally going to stick with it

“Google, thanks for inviting us all to the launch of perspectives! What are your goals with this new platform?”

“Perspectives? Perspectives on what? Who are you people? how did you get in here? Would you like to hear more about our new weekly meat-delivery service?”

“oh. . . . Uhm, sure. . . . Where is your product sourced from?”

“where is what sourced from?”

It’s real this time time, gais, promisssss

How long until Google gives up and shuts it down? Place yer bets!!!

I bet 3 upvotes and one Mastodon follow, it’s killed off in less then 5 years

I’ll be your third upvote. For less than 3.

I knew this was going to be the top comment and I’m hereffor it!

Google, a company you can trust. A company that thought the phrase ‘Don’t be evil’ didn’t fit anymore.

It’s still in their code of conduct, though. Got moved to the bottom.

I remember when they took it off. They probably brought it back because it was giving them a bad image.

They never took it off. That was an Internet meme. They just never did.

I remember people saying that too. Then someone on reddit pointed out that they had moved it to the bottom quietly before the whole rexxit thing. Not sure how to interpret it being removed, added back and moved discretely. But as they say in Camp Cretaceous, “at least…” it’s in there somewhere.

Ahh ok that makes me feel better

Well yeah, if they were truly going to follow the “don’t be evil” motto they’d have to give up capitalism, which ain’t gonna happen.

Neat, another service that Google will inexplicably kill in anywhere from 6 months to five years time.

And hiring people up to the last second. Last few hires probably barely have time to sell their old apartment and pack their families on the plane to California before being laid off.

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