RIP Google Play Music. Have yet to find another streaming service who's algorithm knew me so well to discover new music

Still mourning Google Reader, luckily we can find consolation i in that all those apps and services weren't strategically killed by an evil corporation.

We all love to rag on Google, but this is such a nonsense website. Most of the things "killed" there are superseded by another product, like AI studio replacing Firebase Studio and Google TV replacing Chromecast. Then there's stuff nobody's ever heard of just to pad the list.

Worth noting that while Klipy is headed up by ex Tenor employees, Google has also heavily invested in Klipy.

At my community (The Gamers' Tavern) we ditched Discord (when all the age verification crap started) in favour of Discourse and Fluxer (Discord clone, but open source and self hostable) and currently Klipy integration is offering a sketchy and vague pricing model that is looking like it is going to include ads.

So, that's the vein that runs through all of this. Google killed Tenor, funded a new startup that'll eventually likely be somewhere they can of course shove ads into.

Tenor was always slow for me and had shit search.

I didn't know it was owned by Google, but now that I do it makes complete sense.

Pfft, "not polished". Looks way more polished than manually dumping shit into a folder on my http server. Thanks!

Github sucks though, unreliable and headed to bad places. Considered mirroring or rehosting it somewhere with forgejo? Self-hostable, or there are some public options

This looks interesting. I want to host my own discord alternative but gifs were what I missed most.

If google got rid of it you can bet there is sone slop shit coming to replace it

That is a good point, they've crammed ai slop into everything yet they can't even fix something basic as image search.

Google's search products are designed to NOT serve your desired search result. It will serve the most profitable result, FOR THEM, that is at least tangentially related to your search... Maybe. You'll likely click on one or you'll try a second search and engage with them more. Google profits, you lose.

Google is a restaurant, the only restaurant that most know of. They have a surplus of hot dogs, but they used to serve hamburgers. You have a reasonable expectation that they'll have hamburgers. You order a hamburger and you get an hot dog with cotton candy on it. No refunds. You can try to order another hamburger, but the next could be a hamburger or a balloon filled with toilet water. Most will just eat the hot dog unfortunately. Reinforcement, they will continue.

powered by grok, so you're running a risk every time you use it

That's kinda been Google's standard operating procedure from the start. Anything they get bored with, they bin. I have refused to adopt any of their tech for a long time because I watched them shutter good products all the time. They are too stochastic and too unreliable to trust with any important data.

And giphy results are ultra boring...