[largepeepee]

I feel like it's not only products that get left behind once Google gets bored.

Many of Google's software eventually get worse too. YouTube for example has killed most of their social features by removing dislikes, limited searchability of videos by channel, allowed bots to fill the comments. And Google search has so much malware in their ads that pop up first, that even govts are recommending ad blockers by default.

Such a pity, Google used to be the most respected of the SV big tech.

[cogman10]

Google is just shit.

As my company briefly decided to look into using them for a cloud provider it quickly became apparent that they are just awful stewards of any software that isn’t related to advertisements.

It’s beyond shocking how amateurish GCP is being operated.

My assumption is it comes down to really awful leadership. They only care about making and selling new things. You simply can’t trust that any piece of software or hardware will receive ongoing support, including their cloud offerings.

[clnq]

Looking into Android Code Search, I've found the same issues. Google keeps saying C++ is a terrible language, but the way they use it is pretty bad too. "A bad workman blames his tools" springs to mind a lot reading that code.

[osigurdson]

That is interesting, I thought GCP might be a good alternative - at least for managed Kubernetes.

[infp_arborist]

I have said it before and will say it again:

Google wants to look amateurish for as long as possible to avoid stronger regulation.

[hackernewds]

I had to delete the YouTube app simply because there was no way to disable Shorts. Those things are hopelessly addictive and unavoidable. If I wanted shorts, I'd install TikTok.

[Drakim]

It's crazy, when I remove the YouTube Shorts pane it says "Shelf will be hidden for 30 days".

It feels like a slap to the face by some promotion seeking Google Manager who tells me that he knows better than me. It's crazy. I didn't stop using YouTube like you did but I was darn close. I guess they do know better than me, in a way.

[SoftTalker]

I'm annoyed by the inability to hide shorts but I don't really find them addictive. I've watched a few, determined they were as useless as they appeared, and just ignore them. But it's annoying the amount of space they take up, it's a good third of the screen on my phone.

[txtsd]

Try YouTube Revanced from https://revanced.net/

[dangus]

Shorts are displayed on one single line of the home and subscriptions tab. They’re trivially easy to avoid.

[kps]

> I feel like it's not only products that get left behind once Google gets bored.

As someone who had been working at Google in this space (Nest Hubs, Matter, and planned thing I couldn't tell you about even if I knew its current status) until the decimation, I assure you it's not only products that get left behind.

[ChuckNorris89]

>I assure you it's not only products that get left behind.

Could you please enlighten us what else gets left behind?

[riemannzeta]

Not allowing good search within a channel is the most ridiculous. They're a search company. How is that self-consistent? Especially when you know they have the data and index, but are simply using it for advertising.

[pb060]

They are a search company, yet they decided to give the same name to two completely different web frameworks. Ok one is called AngularJS and the other one is Angular, but still.

[pedrobnsilva]

Agreed. See this across all of Google products.

It's amazing to me that Google Assistant was more useful when it came out than it is today. Just the past few days I've been dealing with this bug where I can't even set an alarm through it.

Google Photos is another one: content-based search used to work really well, but totally unreliable today.