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Are there any officially supported Google products under github.com/google ?
by sideeffffect 4y ago
Are there any officially supported Google products under github.com/google ?
- threatofrain 4y agoEven if there aren't, it makes sense to clarify to media that this is an open source project made without any business commitments. I've seen other businesses do something similar; internally it reduces friction with the business admin when devs want to open source something.
- throwawaybutwhy 4y ago_without any business commitments_ - not to sound trite, but when is the last time Google stood by its commitments?
- ithkuil 4y agoGoogle still sells ads, doesn't it?
- namkt 4y agoDidn't they originally claim to never show ads in search given that it is in direct opposition to search results quality? Back in the days when Pagerank was hot.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoThat was in the original pagerank publications. Google had lots of other early attempts to make money that avoided advertising (like the search appliance [0]), but the firehose of money from ads dwarfed anything else they could ever find and that early Google didn't last long. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance
- ithkuil 4y agoWas that a "business commitment" or a "user commitment"?
- xendo 4y agoAre there any officially supported Google products?
- bheadmaster 4y ago
- ayewo 4y agoWould Google Guice count? https://github.com/google/guice https://github.com/google/guice