Throwing together a service, telling no one, then promptly cancelling it (often because no one used it) is truly the Googlest thing.
Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform
Submitted 7 months ago by Dnew10@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 7 months ago
spiderman@ani.social 7 months ago
why do they even do that when it’s just gonna waste their resources?
vinyl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They invest in a project thinking they can make money off it but forgot to advertise that it exists
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Literally never heard of it, which is probably the reason and kinda makes it a good call?
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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@midwest.social 7 months ago
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.
Computerchairgeneral@fedia.io 7 months ago
So experimental I didn't even know Google had a Pinterest-like social media platform.
fart_pickle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
An unrelated thing killed by Google that just makes me giggle.
So they upgraded phones once and then said, “fuck that.”
Lol
Tja@programming.dev 7 months ago
Almost 2 years, so they didn’t upgrade even once.
ramble81@lemm.ee 7 months ago
293 products and counting.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 7 months ago
Someone stop this bloodthirsty maniac!
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I guess they weren’t so keen on it…
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yet another Google platform I never heard of that is shutting down
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Never even heard of it
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Me neither but I’m sure the Google program manager who proposed it got promoted for that long ago.
Simon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Shut down what?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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).
0ops@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I thought they made shoes
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Or Keen Games, the makers of Enshrouded (and as far as I know, unrelated to Keen Software House)
Nusm@yall.theatl.social 7 months ago
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 7 months ago
Norm!
Nusm@yall.theatl.social 7 months ago
This was one of my favorite bits that he did. I use it all the time!
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
… First time I’ve heard of it. Maybe that’s why it’s shutting down.
Aerxi@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
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.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 7 months ago
Never heard of it, ever.
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Why stop there? Shut it all down. Pull the plug.
shalva97@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m still waiting for Android to be deprecated
shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Another one bites the dust
small44@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What’s keen?
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Not Google
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
No way!
Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
danhab99@programming.dev 7 months ago
How is Google the top advertiser and yet nobody knows about their other products??
evident5051@lemm.ee [bot] 7 months ago
I’ve literally never heard of Keen until this article.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The traditional way to learn about Google services is from the shutdown announcement.
wahming@monyet.cc 7 months ago
No surprise. Nobody talks about new Google projects any more, since the assumption is they’ll be gone in a year.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 7 months ago
At least they didnt intigrate it with Gmail or some other insane bloat they like to do.
RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My understanding is that Google “rates” its leaders by the number and types of projects they develop. Ergo there are a lot of people working on disparate items that often overlap, because it’s “their” project. Once the project completes, they get their credit, stop caring, and move on to the next. It is said this is why google creates then kills so much. It’s by design, essentially. The products they keep are the ones that make the most ad revenue.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yup. Even if Google came out with a really cool service tomorrow that I found far better than alternatives, I still wouldn’t use it, because unless I’m very lucky, it’ll be axed at some point. And Google has only themselves to blame.
I’ll happily shout from the rooftops about my dislike of Apple (their philosophy, faux environmentalism, price-gouging, anti-competitive, anti-repair BS, I could go on for a while), but when was the last time they did this? The fucking Newton? Sure the iPod was axed, but I think it’s fairer to say the market axed MP3 players, rather than Apple axed the iPod.
If Apple announces something, you can be almost certain it’ll still be around in a decade.
Look at Apple Maps. It was an absolute joke when it came out and people mocked and memed it relentlessly.
If Google were in that position, they’d have just scrapped it and moved on to their next project that’d probably be scrapped too.
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
The only Keen I know of (and acknowledge) is the Commander:
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NoRodent@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I know they make shoes.