Power of Google

[lee4]

[AsPika2219]

Nice logo, Google team!

[47iscool]

I like the old logo better. The new one seems to be furthering a certain agenda.

[rimsky82]

I like the old logo better. The new one seems to be furthering a certain agenda.

what?!

[Pyriel]

what?!

No one can help you if you don't recognize the Masonic, all-seeing G when you see it.

[dlevere]

"Google Glass: 2013-?"

Posted by JHarris

Here are some useful websites from our pals at Google. Well actually, the websites and tools have all been killed, but their dev blogs helpfully remain!
Google Notebook - iGoogle - Google
Desktop - Google Video - Orkut - Jaiku (Here's a hilarious-in-retrospect article from Venturebeat about Google buying Jaiku.) - Google Talk (semi-dead, hasn't updated since 2010) - Google Reader.

A good list of killed Google services can be found on Slate's Google Graveyard, unrelated to the one Joe Beese linked in 2010 which has, itself, died.

But hey, at least all those resources they instead poured into Google Plus were for a good cause, right? Anyway, there is more:

• Google Gears was a way sites could host more local data in browsers, yeah it's kaput, made obsolete by increased browser functionality. The Google Gears API Blog keeps on spinning, but Gears wasn't really killed as obsoleted.
• Hey did you hear the latest, circa 2009? This YouTube video introduces Google Sidewiki, the idea that won't die, but never quite lived either. Here's the Chrome team bragging about bringing "Sidewiki goodness" to their browser.
• Remember when the Gmail team was crowing about this new thing called Buzz?
• And remember when Google Knol was open to everyone?
• Did you know some of the FAQ pages for Google Answers are still up, from 2006?
• Google had a social networking service called Dodgeball. Google killed it. One of its creators, Dennis Crowley, left the company and founded Foursquare. Google decided instead to create something called Latitude -- and then killed it, too.
• Google once tried to compete with Second Life, with Google Lively, which was promoted with this video. They shuttered it, leaving Second Life unchallenged to become the all-encompassing internet juggernaut we know today.
• Google Shared Stuff was a social bookmarking service that they killed before it was officially launched.
• Way back in 2000 Google released Google Toolbar, a browser plug-in that put Google services right at the top of the browser window. But then people started seeing resource-hogging toolbars as a form of malware, so it's no longer -- no, wait, Google Toolbar still exists, although for IE only.
• Google Page Creator was a website creation program that they canned, but dummies.com and Instructables will still tell you how you can make (could have made) a page on it. Ah well, at least Google still offers Blogger and Sites -- for now.

[47iscool]

what?!

Well a woman was arrested recently for refusing to do a sham marriage.

[Pyriel]

Are you talking about Kim Davis in Kentucky? You're saying you think the Google logo, using the same colors it's always used, is secretly supporting gay rights? Why would they do that, when they've supported that cause out in the open before?

[47iscool]

Are you talking about Kim Davis in Kentucky? You're saying you think the Google logo, using the same colors it's always used, is secretly supporting gay rights? Why would they do that, when they've supported that cause out in the open before?

Yep. Better not go too much into politics though.
dlevere doesnt like that on here.

[Pyriel]

Well, they're two colors shy of a flag, and I'm guessing you are as well on this topic. Surely they haven't been using those colors for well over a decade because it's the union of two primary color sets or anything.

[47iscool]

Well I'm sorry, I have no interest in what all colors are on the flag and what order they're in.

[Pyriel]

Yeah, it's more efficient for the theorizin' if you just assume two things having colors means they're connected somehow.