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•11 months 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

    • cassetti
      1•11 months ago

      RIP Google Reader. Feedly is nice, but I still liked my plain simple Google Reader

      • draggeta
        1•11 months ago

        Dang, don’t remind me.

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

  • eroc1990English
    2•10 months 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•10 months 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•11 months ago

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

  • d00phyEnglish
    1•11 months 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
          1•11 months 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.

  • Neato
    1•11 months ago

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