Re: Why do so many people confuse Google's Firebase (cloud API) with Google Services Google Firebase App Indexing (search results)?

Arno Welzel wrote on Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:14:36 +0200 :

So the real question is what "stuff" does Google no lump into Firebase?

 
None. Everything is there. Firebase is in fact the connection Google
Services in the cloud - storage, messaging, analytics, search etc. etc...

I apologize for the "no" above which was supposed to be "now" but which can
be interpreted as "not" so you weren't sure what exactly I was asking.

We can summarize by now that anyone using the word Firebase without knowing
both sides of the sheet of paper on Firebase, doesn't know what Firebase
is, and, as a result of not knowing the other half, will just confuse
people.

That's what happened here.
None of us knew then what we know now.

A lot of times confusion reigns because people only know half the story;
and yet they think that the one half that they know is the whole story.

Such is with Firebase.

Firebase is not only a LOT more than just cloud storage APIs, but Firebase
is a lot more than App Idexing also; it's a ton of "stuff" lumped together.

Now we know that Google lumps into what they call Firebase a ton of
completely unrelated "stuff" (some of which is cloud based, much of which
has nothing whatsoever to do with the cloud).

That we know now.
We didn't know that when this thread was opened.

There's a reason I said that nobody understands Firebase, and there's a
reason I said that as a result, this would be a difficult question to
answer. The only people who thought it was easy are those who only read the
first page but who were completely unaware of the second page of Firebase.

Moving forward, I think the only thing left to unravel is what kind of data
is Google uploading when they periodically employ the SEND_INDEX feature of
the thing known as "Google Services: Google Firebase App Indexing".

It takes only seconds to *see* the Firebase App Index in action:
 <https://i.postimg.cc/3Jcqm39B/firebaseindex02.jpg>
But it might take a while to figure out how to shut the darn thing off:
 <https://i.postimg.cc/vB4hQnww/firebaseindex01.jpg>

  (This is a request of everyone reading this thread, not just Arno.)
  *What do you see when you look at YOUR Firebase App Indexing?*