Google is shutting down its URL shortening service, so any links created with it will stop working. If you have any important links using the service, you want to migrate them. I'm pretty sure Google will soon sell YouTube to like Johnson and Johnson and Gmail to Luxottica, and then go full speed into the what the f are we doing business? Whatever business that is, it's the single most perplexing company like I've ever seen. They were first on Gen AI.
They wrote the paper for Transformers, and now they're completely lapped by not just OpenAI, but anthropic as well. And now they're being lapped by meta, by meta in an open source model. How are you like fifth place when you have all the people and all the money and you actually invented the tech? They're like the opposite of Cloudflare, which does small things really well that add up over time because Google is like slowly dismantling everything. It's getting
rid of all the best things that it has. The main thing Google is growing is the Google graveyard. Such a colossal waste of money and talent. And these failures should be studied for centuries. As an example of what happens when you don't lead with UX focused product management. Product management, like being in charge, like thinking about the customer and the total package and the total experience of this product or service that you're launching, as opposed to
throw shit at the wall. Focused engineering and engineering is in charge of product. It makes no sense whatsoever. Like it is the most inefficient, like large organization I can imagine that I've ever seen.