danhab99 ,
@danhab99@programming.dev avatar

How is Google the top advertiser and yet nobody knows about their other products??

Siegfried ,

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.

ThatFembyWho ,

Why stop there? Shut it all down. Pull the plug.

shalva97 ,

I’m still waiting for Android to be deprecated

Dehydrated ,

Never even heard of it

nova_ad_vitum ,

Me neither but I’m sure the Google program manager who proposed it got promoted for that long ago.

Simon ,

Shut down what?

Aerxi ,

I know Google has a terrible reputation for killing their projects but this one is just an experiment from Area 120 so it’s not surprising or terrible that they’re killing it or weren’t advertising it.

Caligvla ,
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

… First time I’ve heard of it. Maybe that’s why it’s shutting down.

shotgun_crab ,

Another one bites the dust

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

Yet another Google platform I never heard of that is shutting down

Bishma , (edited )
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I also never heard of this product, so the first thing I thought of was Keen Software House (makers of the game Space Engineers).

CurbsTickle , (edited )

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  • ripcord ,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    Billy Blaze!

    Kolanaki ,
    @Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

    Grandson of Billy Blascowitz!

    ripcord ,
    @ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

    Oh man, please tell me that’s cannon and I just missed it all these years.

    Edit: It is!!

    zalgotext ,

    Or Keen Games, the makers of Enshrouded (and as far as I know, unrelated to Keen Software House)

    0ops ,

    I thought they made shoes

    Creat ,

    Literally never heard of it, which is probably the reason and kinda makes it a good call?

    Theharpyeagle ,

    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.

    Hadriscus ,

    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

    kibiz0r ,

    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.

    FartsWithAnAccent ,
    @FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io avatar

    Never heard of it, ever.

    small44 ,

    What’s keen?

    Gormadt ,
    @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Not Google

    RiikkaTheIcePrincess ,
    @RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social avatar

    Throwing together a service, telling no one, then promptly cancelling it (often because no one used it) is truly the Googlest thing.

    spiderman ,
    @spiderman@ani.social avatar

    why do they even do that when it’s just gonna waste their resources?

    vinyl ,

    They invest in a project thinking they can make money off it but forgot to advertise that it exists

    Computerchairgeneral ,

    So experimental I didn't even know Google had a Pinterest-like social media platform.

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