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    • N Offline
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      As far as Google's reluctance to talk about what they're up to, they seem to have a flat policy not to talk about that stuff. I believe they're being cautious--perhaps overly so--about repeating some of Microsoft's mistakes. You may recall that in the early days of Windows, Microsoft used to regularly issue press announcements about their great plans for the OS, along with estimated roll-out dates. When their plans slipped and they delayed software releases for months or even years, they took quite a huge amount of flack for it. I believe that's when the term "vaporware" entered the lexicon.

      Microsoft's image never quite recovered from those days, and that was part of where they got their terrible reputation and low esteem among the public at large. I think Google's theory is that if they don't make promises, they can't break them.

      In any event, the suspense is nearly at an end.

      -Gully

      Edited to correct misspellings. I know, who cares?

      Poster-Gully Foyle

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      • L Offline
        lewiswadsworth
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        @unknownuser said:

        As far as Google's reluctance to talk about what they're up to, they seem to have a flat policy not to talk about that stuff.

        Or else they don't care and aren't doing much. AEC and by extension 3D modeling is not part of their core search/advertising financial continuum. I've been worried about that since they bought @Last. I suspect that if the Google Overlords weren't so besotted with the science fiction novel "Snowcrash" they would not have acquired Keyhole (Google Earth), and they only bought and free-bied SketchUp as a quick way to fill GE with visual content.

        --Lewis

        Lewis Wadsworth

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        • C Offline
          Charlie__V
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          @juanv.soler said:

          and 102 guests ¡¡
          that´s a lot of expectation

          what do you think is going on today in Google-@Last ?

          Looks like it's a Wrap..... T.O.D. 11:59.59999 6-4-2007
          Edit: Wait...... Still Beating 8:01 6-5-2007

          C

          Precision M1710/Win 7 Pro 64 bit/i-7 6920 Quad core 2.9 Ghz -3.8/16Gb ram/NVIDIA M5000M 8Gb

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          • L Offline
            lewiswadsworth
            last edited by

            Yep, 2007-06-05 9:07 AM EST I just received a private message from the old place.

            Lewis Wadsworth

            col sporcar si trova

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            • RonSR Offline
              RonS
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              Here are the latest remarks I can find from anyone at Google.

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              (forum.sketchup.com)

              Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
              Steve Jobs

              RonS

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              • J Offline
                JuanV.Soler
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                late news, as i can see:
                http://forum.sketchup.com/showthread.php?t=81368&page=2

                ,))),

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                • John SayersJ Offline
                  John Sayers
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                  in reality it's probably 2 members, 2 guests and 100 google bots.

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                  • S Offline
                    Stu
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                    Probably right John 😒
                    What I find hard to fathom is why, when firstly they were going to 'migrate' in 3 days, it is now taking the best part of a month?
                    Google are saying its taking so long because they want to get everything right ❗
                    Yeah 😉 .....makes you wonder what they had in mind for their original move.... ❓ ❓

                    http://www.landesign.com.au

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                      tomsdesk
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                      Stu, my guess would be:

                      "Absolutely nut'n!"

                      http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
                      2.5D Trees & Shrubs!

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                      • J Offline
                        JuanV.Soler
                        last edited by

                        i´m confident
                        i think they´ll make it, fair enough

                        any bets ❓

                        ,))),

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                          Will03
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                          my bet would be that google would have opened one group to replace the entire forum, and then just shut down the other forums while they did the migration in the background.

                          i guess we did make a little difference...

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                          • CraigDC Offline
                            CraigD
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                            @will03 said:

                            my bet would be that google would have opened one group to replace the entire forum, and then just shut down the other forums while they did the migration in the background.

                            i guess we did make a little difference...

                            Yes, you all did make a difference. People listened.

                            - CraigD
                            

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