On: Update on Sharing

[ryanseys]

There was an internal joke / meme at Google that any announcement starting with "An update on X" == we are killing X, to the point that if someone was sending their resignation email the subject line of the email would be "An update on <name>"

- https://blog.chromium.org/2023/05/an-update-on-lock-icon.htm...

- https://blogger.googleblog.com/2019/01/an-update-on-google-a...

- https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2015/06/an-update-...

The rest: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22an+update+on%22+site%3Ago...

[seedless-sensat → ryanseys]

To me, the worst Google corpspeak/best meme was "Advancing our amazing bet" https://fiber.google.com/blog/2016/10/advancing-our-amazing-...

[MichaelZuo → seedless-sensat]

The obtuseness of communication is inversely proportional to the strength of position of the communicator multiplied by the scope of the message.

[saagarjha → ryanseys]

To result for me on that search query is “An update on kids and data protection on YouTube”. I guess no more kids and data protection? :P

[anthlax → ryanseys]

My current favorite corp speak is “we can’t wait to share it with you”. Seems like it’s in literally every product announcement. At least this one is positive