Caught their breath at the news that Google closes Reader? Just do not need to pretend that you are surprised :) When they closed the Wave - I was silent when closed Health - I was silent when they closed Picasa Web - I was silent, then they came for me. Google does this constantly and very often has the most favorite services. If you want to sensibly perceive the world, do not look at the freaks in glasses with a reality superimposed on statues in front of the green robot luxurious offices on eccentric staff at conferences, and dream "Now I was there"Yes, 20% of the time to put! Google, exactly like the other similar companies is not about that.
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It is the corporations that are traded on the stock exchange and should make money, large and small investors, shareholders. No longer any purpose in this company is not like any other in this world. Of course, there is an idea that is drummed employees every day in the offices that they connect the world of information, make ideas more generally carried out and change the world. Not without it. But one thing - make money, and we need only a "thing" to pay attention, the rest
crap Leave Google employees. Today, Google - the largest advertising agency in the world, which is closing in on its sales to the half of the global advertising market, if not longer. All this thanks to a single service to the profile - Search and sewed to it service advertising network. Search and advertising network creates more pump money, for which there is a whole corporation. Not for Google Reader, not for the sake of convenient email and competition with Apple in the mobile market (this is only attempt to sell advertising there and control the user data for better sales service advertising).About Google Reader: it's time to stop believing in Santa Claus and free Google convenient services. Its mail your rss-aggregator and jabber-server.
- Ganger Hrolf (@ ganger70) March 14, 2013
Now let's look at the non-core services of the company and try to think what we are entrusted with Google and what will happen if we take away this service. We looked not at all the services, but only to those which many people know.
post office
Everyone's favorite Gmail! 20 GB in the box, and can have more. Right you advertising that is displayed according to type what you wrote in the letter, and what they write to you. Super. Imagine for a moment that any European Parliament, the usual bureaucratic rats multiplied, taking the law on the inadmissibility of reading your mail advertising bots. Advertising becomes less and I am willing to submit communications, saying that "We understand that our users love the service, but the growth has stopped. And yes, why do not you communicate with on Google+ Google+ users, both in Facebook? » Exaggerated and a bit silly, but why not? Where the advertising money pump and where your mail?
I think it would be wise to advise you to read the mail in mail programs like Outlook, Thunderbird and Mail.app. Will be closed, and mail will stay with you. Of course, that mail for the domains remain intact - for her to pay the money. Same with calendars and documents. Use desktop programs for remote calendars and bekapte data locally tried Google Drive using the sync client.
Yes, if you thought that Google Reader's over, you're wrong - and now Google closes CalDav API. Who out there shouting that AES is bad?
- Eugen (@jenjaman) March 14, 2013
Photo
You did not notice that Picasa has become part hung with a bunch of unnecessary features Google+? And at what point we are with you decided that you need to store photos on the Internet? Of course, you have plenty of time to read the comments, markup friends and all that, but we are not talking about it. We are about the fact that your photos are too far from the profile Google's business. Why do not you make the pictures in albums in Lightroom or the iPhoto, do not mark the places there, friends face? Afraid for safety? Bekapte it in Dropbox, box.com, Drobo or just screw on the network home network. Do not equip the "home", which do not own. With a home like clear to all, and Web services - to anyone.
Blog
When Google bought once the brightest Twitter competitor Jaiku service, they closed it. And until recently was closed Posterous - Blogging today is not the theme of the trend (? What do you think) What prevents Google shut down your blog on Blogger? How it will be served? Easy :) "We've been doing Google+ and believe that your blog it will attend more and will become" better "! You can upload the blog entries and comments in Google Takeout and enjoy them alone. " Or here's another option. «Blogger - Google's oldest service and we truly love him. But with a heavy heart, we have found that it more than 95% of blogs - spamyaschie search resources. We share your pain, but the blogger will be closed in six months. The main focus of! "
I think that should always be remembered that there are services such as WordPress.com or LiveJournal, which is somewhat more profiled to blogs, though disastrously flawed (especially the latter). Even install on your hosting WordPress engine and drive your blog. The costs are minimal safety guarantees - excellent. Layfhaker existed since 2007 and during these 7 years, we know very little danger. Then Google, we do not exactly a friend and not an enemy.
FeedBurner
You do not know that most of your subscriptions in Google Reader (just a habit to write so) go through service FeedBurner, which was bought by Google and that the last two years was not a single drop changed. Obviously the focus is not on this service at our vacuum cleaner advertising money. If tomorrow rubanut service, many blogs tomorrow will not appear in your new RSS-chitalke. Blogs will lose readers. By the way, why do we need blogs, if there is Google+? Really…
If you are a blogger and your readers podpisyvatsya on something like feeds.feebburner.com/blog_name, then make a direct feed and collect subscribers to it. Yes, before reliability feedburner was undeniable, and we believe that readers will not lose if we lose the domain. Lose feedburner today seems to me a little more likely than domain lifehacker.ru. our main feed today, by the way //lifehacker.ru/feed/.
alerts
You know what it is? You - cool. I am sure that 90% of Google does not know about this service :) will go under the knife, as a mother-in-law under the ice! Do not profile, not money, garbage some shorter.
groups
Yet again the group moved to Google+. Technically, they are no longer there. If heavily dependent on them, the tie with the service. Use paid online CRM like Basecamp, Teamlab or Megaplan. There are Yahoo! Groups - not consistently changing quite a while, but who understands graduate Google Marisa Meyer, who steers the company today?
What else do you have entrusted Google and why you believe that everything will be as before?