• @[email protected]
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      491 year ago

      Some of these are fucking wild

      Killed over 1 year ago, Cameos on Google allowed celebrities and other public figures to record video responses to the most common questions asked about them which would be shown to users in Google Search results. It was over 3 years old.

      Imagine googling “does Bruno Mars is gay?” and Bruno Mars himself shows up to tell you if he is or doesn’t

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Dammit, Cameo is dead?

        I honestly loved the concept and would probably have been a customer if I could afford it.

        Contrary to your description, it was mostly celebrities doing custom greetings for fans, sometimes as themselves, sometimes in character and usually bought for people as a surprise gift.

        Amongst others, there was Jim Rash wishing a Community fan a happy birthday in character as Dean Pelton and dozens if not hundreds of short to medium length videos of Dave Mustaine from Megadeth recording super wholesome and sincere messages for specific fans.

        Can you honestly tell me that doesn’t sound great?

        • jonkenator
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          91 year ago

          You’re talking about a non-Google product called Cameo.

          Cameo = not-Google. Celebrities record videos per fan/follower request.

          Google Cameo = Celebrities record short videos as responses to Google searches about themselves.

          Similar, but different.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I thought it was a made up product I seen on a movie, I can’t remember what movie it was, though.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              i think it was about this d list personality or a washed up actor who needs to top up and do his cameos to increase his net worth, and his manager reminding him to do the cameos.

              I dont even know if what i remember is existing or just a figment of my imagination. Lol. Just goes to show how fucked up our memories have become due to our online activties.

        • Kogasa
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          11 year ago

          I think Cameo is different from “Cameos on Google.”

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Damn I’ve never even heard of that but I wish I had, it seems like it’d be fun to fuck around and see how many recorded responses you can find lol

    • 👽🍻👽
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      181 year ago

      This is extremely interesting. So many products that I’ve never heard of and many of them were actually around for 6-12 years before being axed or coming up on death soon. A lot of these I had heard of and even used occasionally over the years and I didn’t realize were gone now.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        It’s amazing how many cool projects they’ve funded the creation of, but never really advertised, and subsequently killed

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            Why the F would they kill Google Domains. Don’t they own a freaking cloud? How is having a registrar not essential when you own a cloud?

            Damn, that page is so interesting. Thanks for the rabbit hole.

            Holy shit, Google has ADHD.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              At this point I’m just waiting for them to axe YouTube out of the blue and with maybe 2 days warning. If Google announces a project nowadays I just assume they’ll kill it off at some point.

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              Google Domains

              Wait… This is a bit of a problem- all my domains are on Google Domains. Are there any other registrars with $12/yr domains that I can migrate to?

              Edit: considering cloudflare

              • Kogasa
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                21 year ago

                Your contract should be moved over to Cloudflare automatically and they have committed to honoring existing prices for now.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                Any of them if you register for just one year lol

                I used namecheap because they had .com for I think 11$ on sale, and I bought two domains for my stuff

                But they sure ask a lot for cool names

            • Kogasa
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              21 year ago

              Selling it to Cloudflare. Dunno why, presumably not profitable enough.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Wow, so many products I didn’t realize were dead. I remember when they were pushing Duo.

      • ChrisostomeStrip
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        31 year ago

        Some of them weren’t really killed, just renamed. Duo for example is now Meet