Google is laying off employees at Waze

www.theverge.com Google is laying off employees at Waze

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.

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Google only ever kills the services I use. I fucking hate Google more and more every year.
- the services I use
  
  I fucking hate Google
  
  Looks like you need to deGoogle. I did.
- RIP Google Reader. 😥
  
  More to the point however, they're killing off the advertising arm of Waze because they're integrating it into the Google Ads department:
  
  The company is moving Waze over to Google’s ads system, and that change will mean cuts at Waze in “sales, marketing, operations and analytics,” Chris Phillips, VP and GM of Google’s Geo unit, wrote in an email seen by the publication.
  
  Since Waze was originally a separate app that was bought by Google, this is likely just killing off a redundant department. So unless the service you use is Waze's ads, this probably won't affect you too much.
- RIP Google Reader. Feedly is nice, but I still liked my plain simple Google Reader
  
  Dang, don't remind me.
  
  Reader was sacrificed so they could prop up Google plus... What were they thinking
- Please start using Google SQL
  
  Who decided on any_value(col HAVING MAX(sort_col)) vs max_by(col, sort_col)
I'm surprised they kept it up and didn't just incorporate the back end into google maps.
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.
- I used to love me some Inbox for Gmail.
  
  How about some Google Wave? No? Just me?
  
  That was the shit
Don't you dare shut it down!
it's just a matter of time until Waze joins this list
to be fair they bought waze years ago. i'm surprised that waze has lasted this long
- Wait until you hear about Grand Central
Another one for https://killedbygoogle.com/
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?
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.
- 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

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