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

Andrew, 2024-06-24 08:04:

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Back to Firebase (cloud) and Firebase App Indexing (search), I think what
probably happened is that Firebase App Indexing came first and then it was
deprecated and then Google decided to re-use the fancy marketing name.

No:

<https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-android/tree/12d0ace067a11319d47109c98cb08f82275eca25/app-indexing>

Quote:

Introduction

- Read more about Firebase App Indexing

Getting Started

- Add Firebase to your Android Project.
- Open the App Indexing project in Android Studio.
- Run the sample on your Android device or emulator by issuing
  the following command using adb tool:
(...)

(End of quote)

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.


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