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 09:18:02 +0200 :

Chris wrote on Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:57:03 -0000 (UTC) :
 

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.

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It's literally all on wikipedia.

 
Where in that Wikipedia page do the words "Firebase App Indexing" show up?
Where even are the words "app indexing"? Or even the word "indexing" Chris?
 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase>

 
Because Wikipedia is not an autoritative source and may miss things or
even contain errors.

Exactly my point.

Chris said "It's literally all on Wikipedia", and in fact, it's not.

Chris sees one side of a double-sided description and Chris unilaterally
declares that there is nothing more to it than the one side he sees.

We know that's just dead wrong; Wikipedia barely scratches the surface.

It's no big deal now though Arno, as you kindly helped me understand that
Firebase is a trademark (most likely) that Google owns and which Google
uses to lump all sorts of completely unrelated "things" into that bundle.

My main point about Firebase is kind of like people who only read the first
side of a two-sided medicine explanation sheet from the pharmacy.

In that respect, there are only two kinds of people (for this purpose):
1. The kind that read one side and don't even KNOW there's another side
2. The kind that at least know there are two sides to the drug description

My point was that Firebase is so many different completely unrelated
things, that anyone who does NOT know that it's many things (most of which
have nothing to do with each other), then they just confuse everyone else
when they talk about Firebase when, in fact, they mean only a single
component of Firebase.

In this case, the component I was most interested in is the Firebase App
Indexing, which, is clear by now, has NOTHING to do with the components of
Firebase which are related to cloud storage back-end APIs linked into apps.

Thanks mostly to your patience and my persistence, this is well known by
all of us by now, and it's something we will never forget because we're
intelligent beings who can handle the level of detail necessary to
understand both sides of anything technical (including drug literature).

Thanks for all your help and kind advice.