It’s unclear how many jobs will be cut.

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.

    • _number8_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      it’s such a fucking sick philosophy. imagine having that much money and might and still killing anything useful and not even able to sustain the quality of fucking search

    • 3laws@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      the services I use

      I fucking hate Google

      Looks like you need to deGoogle. I did.

      • draggeta@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Dang, don’t remind me.

        Reader was sacrificed so they could prop up Google plus… What were they thinking

  • eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

  • darkkite@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    to be fair they bought waze years ago. i’m surprised that waze has lasted this long

  • NebLem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    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?

  • Neato@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’m surprised they kept it up and didn’t just incorporate the back end into google maps.

    • sadreality@kbin.social
      01·
      2 years ago

      Waze had strong user base… Kinda like Firefox

      Google tried killing firefox like other browsers but just couldn’t. Then they realized some degenerates just prefer using Firefox no matter how much better optimization for chrome is.

      So then they just pay Firefox for default search

      Helped googleb in the long run, as they would be 100% monopoly on android and windows now… Instead of 90% currently lol

  • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    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.

        • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
          0·
          2 years ago

          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.

      • snarf@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Inbox loss still hurts. And then the lies about bringing all the features into Gmail… Meanwhile Gmail still looks like a half-assed 2005 beta with some unwanted corpo productivity tools awkwardly wedged into it.