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Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

Why does Google still have the I'm Feeling Lucky button?

And what do the ways Google search has changed mean for us as a society?

Plus, a proposed global library of underwater audio with a perfect name,

and what fish are usually talking about when they communicate acoustically. And finally,

Kraft Hines is throwing their hat in the plant-based alternatives ring, but how do plant-based alternatives actually stack up

to real meat? Here are some of the cool things from the news today. Have you ever visited

KilledbyGoogle.com? It's a site that keeps track of all of the apps, hardware, products, and services that Google has ever, well, killed.

Heavy hitters like Google Reader and Google Plus, but also 262 others, including Google URL shortener,

Hangouts on Air, Google Trips, Google Buzz, Google Wave, remember that one, Google Cardboard, and YouTube

community contributions for captions, a particularly egregious killing, in my opinion.

Now, I've done a lot of work with Google over the years as a video creator on YouTube.

I've attended a lot of their summits, gotten to speak with employees across

lots of different projects and disciplines. So I know that when Google sunsets a product,

it's usually after a lot of careful thought and extensive feedback sessions with users.

Ultimately, it tends to come down to how many people are actually using it and how much it costs to maintain.

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