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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Imagine how many brilliant innovations have been lost to the world because of this...

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I don't even know if that list would be a fair one because those are things we know were killed. We don't know how many unannounced or secret projects were killed that were basically completed.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Well "brilliant" may be a stretch for a lot of those...

[-] sudo42@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

My understanding is that these projects are a side-effect of how Google judges promotions. If you’ve “created a new product”, that puts you higher on the list to get promoted.

There are no incentives nor resources for maintaining those products. So you see a long list of “ideas” from Google that are abandoned immediately after someone got their promotion.

this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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