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 Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:41:41 +0200 :

If you want a cellphone which doesn't watch you there's really only
PinePhone OS available, and that's hardly a system everybody can use.

 
Or e/OS/ or Murena or Librem 5 and so on...

Thank you for helping us answer the question of how Firebase App Indexing
fits into the overall agglomeration of stuff which Google calls "Firebase".

Thanks to your persistence, and to mine, we have a good answer.
 <https://www.google.com/search?q=com.google.samples.quickstart.appindexing>

One of the hits of that specific search term found a list of "stuff"
samples showing (at least) 14 "things" Google considers part of Firebase.

1. A/B Testing (Google Services Firebase A/B Testing)
2. AdMob (Google Services Firebase AdMob)
3. Analytics (Google Services Firebase Analytics)
4. App Indexing (Google Services Firebase App Indexing)
5. Authentication (Google Services Firebase Authentication)
6. Cloud Firestore (Google Services Firebase Cloud Firestore)
7. Cloud Functions (Google Services Firebase Cloud Functions)
8. Cloud Messaging (Google Services Firebase Cloud Messaging)
9. Cloud Storage (Google Services Firebase Cloud Storage)
10. Crashlytics (Google Services Firebase Crashlytics)
11. Dynamic Links (Google Services Firebase Dynamic Links)
12. Performance Monitoring (Google Services Firebase Performance Monitoring)
13. Realtime Database (Google Services Firebase Realtime Database)
14. Remote Config (Google Services Firebase Remote Config)

While "Google Services Firebase App Indexing" is deprecated,
Firebase App Indexing is still very active on our Android phones,
where an UPDATE_INDEX is still, even today, being uploaded
periodically to Google servers based on what this cite explains.

 Google Services Firebase App Indexing
 <https://medium.com/android-news/firebase-app-indexing-for-personal-content-getting-personal-content-into-search-c52bfe45b3ac>
 "A note about privacy: The personal content index
  only exists on the user's device.
  None of the user's personal content is uploaded
  to Google servers and it only remains on the
  device while the app is installed.
  However, aggregated statistics about apps' usage
  of App Indexing and other system health
  information may be uploaded to Google servers."

You can see it for yourself on your own phone in front of you.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/KvCkLccr/firebase03.jpg> Firebase tracking