Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

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Literally never heard of it, which is probably the reason and kinda makes it a good call?

It's just self-fulfilling prophecy at this point. No one trust Google to keep anything around for more than a couple years so they don't use it. Then it gets scrapped as a failure and everyone is proven correct.

yep. I don't go near Google products anymore because I know I'm gonna have to migrate a short while later. I don't understand how they're not seeing this

In this case, probably. I don’t think the world was asking for a Pinterest clone.

But the problem is, Google does this with everything.

Stadia had an incredibly successful moment with the Cyberpunk launch. Yet Google failed to hype it up, and then announced about two months later that they were laying off a bunch of devs.

At the same time, they restructured the monetization and improved the client, making it a really compelling service. And all the news was “Stadia is dead”. And then it was.