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 Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:14:59 +0200 :

It makes no sense to instruct anyone to "Add Firebase to your Android
Project" to be able to use "Firebase App Indexing" if those where
completely different products which did not have any connection with
each other at all.

I'm going to agree with you based on my own search using this keyword:
 <https://www.google.com/search?q=com.google.samples.quickstart.appindexing>

The key links that arise from that search are the following of import:
 <https://firebase.google.com/docs/samples>
 <https://firebase.google.com/docs/android/learn-more>
 <https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quickstart>
 <https://devlibrary.withgoogle.com/products/firebase/repos/firebase-quickstart-android>
 <https://firebaseopensource.com/projects/firebase/quickstart-android/auth/readme/>
 <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41649828/android-firebase-app-indexing-app-not-showing-in-google-autocomplete-suggestio>
 <https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup>
 <https://firebaseopensource.com/projects/firebase/quickstart-android/analytics/readme/>
 <https://devlibrary.withgoogle.com/products/firebase/repos/firebase-quickstart-android/pages/app-indexing/readme>
 <https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-android>

It looks perhaps like Google lumped a billion unrelated things into what
Google had decided to call "Firebase" and then Google, at some point,
deprecated the "Firebase App Indexing" component of Firebase (which never
had anything to do with the cloud).

So the real question is what "stuff" does Google no lump into Firebase?
The answer is NOT just the cloud, as they have advertising analytics also.