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Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform (alternativeto.net)
submitted 8 months ago by Dnew10@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 117 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Throwing together a service, telling no one, then promptly cancelling it (often because no one used it) is truly the Googlest thing.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

why do they even do that when it's just gonna waste their resources?

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They invest in a project thinking they can make money off it but forgot to advertise that it exists