Google is laying off employees at Waze
Google is laying off employees at Waze. The company is moving Waze over to Google’s ads system, and that change will mean job cuts at Waze. Google folded Waze into its Geo group in December.
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Google only ever kills the services I use. I fucking hate Google more and more every year.
Looks like you need to deGoogle. I did.
RIP Google Reader. 😥
More to the point however, they're killing off the advertising arm of Waze because they're integrating it into the Google Ads department:
Since Waze was originally a separate app that was bought by Google, this is likely just killing off a redundant department. So unless the service you use is Waze's ads, this probably won't affect you too much.
Please start using Google SQL
Who decided on
any_value(col HAVING MAX(sort_col))vsmax_by(col, sort_col)RIP Google Reader. Feedly is nice, but I still liked my plain simple Google Reader
Dang, don't remind me.
Reader was sacrificed so they could prop up Google plus... What were they thinking
Damnit, why did you have to remind me about Google Plus.
Crap, and now I feel old remembering life before Google, and watching the rise/fall of so many google products.
Anyone else remember Infoseek? Where you could search within results to refine your search? Ah those were the days
I have a feeling we'll have the same nostalgic feelings about ChatGPT in the future - "Remember when AI was simple and didn't require an hourly subscription for advice on [XYZ topic]"
I'm surprised they kept it up and didn't just incorporate the back end into google maps.
Just some interesting trivia, firefox handles static web pages way faster than chrome. You're kinda forced to use JS just because chrome (chromium) owns 90% share of web browsers market.
Don't you dare shut it down!
For the longest time, I held on to Gmail, but honestly it’s been surpassed by Hotmail. The sweep feature is very useful in keeping the unread count down. Besides mail and search, I consider every other Google service temporary.
I used to love me some Inbox for Gmail.
How about some Google Wave? No? Just me?
I played Dungeons and Dragons on it! I cried because I lost all those adventures and dialogue between characters. I try to do the same with discord but it's just never been the same. It was truly innovative but that might just be a rose tinted view.
That was the shit
it's just a matter of time until Waze joins this list
to be fair they bought waze years ago. i'm surprised that waze has lasted this long
Wait until you hear about Grand Central
Another one for https://killedbygoogle.com/
It would be so neat for a federated Waze like platform built on ActivityPub, OpenStreetMap, and OpenRouteService. Anyone know of anyone doing anything like that?
I know it's due to role redundancy, but ever since Waze was pulled more closely under the Google umbrella, every change they make worries me.
It sucks I use Waze daily and I know maps is t going to have all the same features just like they promised Gmail would get everything from inbox