--- title: You can't trust Google | daily.dev description: Google bought Nest almost a decade ago, and has managed to do worse than nothing with its product portfolio since. This goes from Workspaces to Gmail for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-t-trust-google-zbbidetvm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: You can't trust Google | daily.dev og:description: Google bought Nest almost a decade ago, and has managed to do worse than nothing with its product portfolio since. This goes from Workspaces to Gmail for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-t-trust-google-zbbidetvm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZBbIdETvM.png og:image:alt: You can't trust Google og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # You can't trust Google **[David Heinemeier Hansson](https://daily.dev/sources/dhh)** · 2 min read · 92 upvotes · 14 comments ## Summary Google bought Nest almost a decade ago, and has managed to do worse than nothing with its product portfolio since. This goes from Workspaces to Gmail for Domains to even the Google Cloud Platform. This is an evergreen observation, but I'm bringing it up in celebration of Google killing their domain name registrar Google Domains just now. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@intergalactic** · 4 upvotes > True: https://killedbygoogle.com/ **@qorbani** · 2 upvotes > So true! I am big Fan of Google services but I have to admit, killing Google Domains made me doubt some of my choices!!! Google Domain should have been merged with GCP as part of their Google DNS services such as what AWS Route53 offer! > > Two other services they killed which was so important to me was Google Reader and IoT Core (Part of GCP)! > > I am womdering what would be the next!? **@swozey** · 1 upvotes > Dude I have blocked DHH posts every single time I've seen one for 2 months and I still get them. Wtf is up with that? **@cmaco** · 1 upvotes > omg :))) web2 is not worth trusting ? what about web3 were all hell is loose **@thejufo** · 1 upvotes > I never trusted Goog.le --- Tags: [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#gcp](https://daily.dev/tags/gcp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-t-trust-google-zbbidetvm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"You can't trust Google","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-t-trust-google-zbbidetvm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-t-trust-google-zbbidetvm"},"datePublished":"2023-06-19T15:55:00.297Z","dateModified":"2023-06-19T15:54:49.579Z","description":"Google bought Nest almost a decade ago, and has managed to do worse than nothing with its product portfolio since. 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