Yet another Google platform I never heard of that is shutting down
So experimental I didn’t even know Google had a Pinterest-like social media platform.
I guess they weren’t so keen on it…
Shut down what?
… First time I’ve heard of it. Maybe that’s why it’s shutting down.
No way!
Read about it and more in this month’s riveting issue of
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This was one of my favorite bits that he did. I use it all the time!
Another one bites the dust
Literally never heard of it, which is probably the reason and kinda makes it a good call?
It’s just self-fulfilling prophecy at this point. No one trust Google to keep anything around for more than a couple years so they don’t use it. Then it gets scrapped as a failure and everyone is proven correct.
yep. I don’t go near Google products anymore because I know I’m gonna have to migrate a short while later. I don’t understand how they’re not seeing this
In this case, probably. I don’t think the world was asking for a Pinterest clone.
But the problem is, Google does this with everything.
Stadia had an incredibly successful moment with the Cyberpunk launch. Yet Google failed to hype it up, and then announced about two months later that they were laying off a bunch of devs.
At the same time, they restructured the monetization and improved the client, making it a really compelling service. And all the news was “Stadia is dead”. And then it was.
Throwing together a service, telling no one, then promptly cancelling it (often because no one used it) is truly the Googlest thing.
why do they even do that when it’s just gonna waste their resources?
They invest in a project thinking they can make money off it but forgot to advertise that it exists
How is Google the top advertiser and yet nobody knows about their other products??
Never heard of it, ever.
I have seen dead social media or social media approaching its dead, but I ve never seen this. Keen looks like it had zero activity for a long, long time.
Never even heard of it
Me neither but I’m sure the Google program manager who proposed it got promoted for that long ago.
I also never heard of this product, so the first thing I thought of was Keen Software House (makes of the game Space Engineers).
Or Keen Games, the makers of Enshrouded (and as far as I know, unrelated to Keen Software House)
Commander Keen for me
Billy Blaze!
Grandson of Billy Blascowitz!
Oh man, please tell me that’s cannon and I just missed it all these years.
Edit: It is!!
I thought they made shoes
