This is Google

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Google I/O keynote is today. Let’s see how many things they announce that will just be canceled within a couple years.

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Is Google making a new version of Google Reader?

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Not at all unconfusing

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Here’s something of interest: Goomics. They’re comics drawn by a former Google employee that satirize the company. They were originally internal, but he recently quit and now he’s publishing them online.

The author now works for Twitter. Let’s hope he makes a bunch of comics about them when he eventually ends his employment there.

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https://www.ghacks.net/2021/07/13/google-will-start-prompting-users-to-switch-to-drive-for-desktop-from-july-19th

I switched recently when I re-installed windows. I didn’t even realize at the time the app I was using was old, deprecated, and replaced. The new one is vastly superior.

https://pinboard.in

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Google has decided it wants more money.

It’s not quite that simple. There are game theoretical differences between the two auction types which will change how companies bid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_first-price_auction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_second-price_auction

Of course. But if this decision wasn’t going to improve Google’s bottom line, they wouldn’t do it.