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Obviously. Chrome is only about pushing out features which Google needs to deliver their platforms and products.

MathMl, despite being in the spec does nothing to this end.

Or, you know, you could not always assume the worst. Did you think the same when mozilla seriously considered dropping it?

the difference is the discussion that happened, where also mozilla employees weighted in to support mathml. there is afaik no open discussion in chrom(ium|e).

First there is a discussion on the bug report. How is that not open?

If you want a mailing list discussion, did you start a discussion on chromium-dev, or is your complaint that nobody else did?

From what I see, the discussion existed on a bug report because that is how it was reported by a user as a feature request. Support was never complete, the person maintaining it stopped doing so, etc.

How do you explain Google Scholar or the Research feature in Google Docs?

Created in the same era as Google Code Search and likely to meet the same fate.

They can probably file it under hiring costs. It's a very effective branding measure targeted towards all the academics they need.

While researchers have to search for publications all the time, I don't see many use cases for a code search engine.

You've not spent much time trying to use insufficiently documented APIs then. I used Google Code Search all the time -- now I search on GitHub.

Since Google is a software company as well as a research laboratory (though I would say it is more prominently the former), I would be surprised that they would kill Code Search but keep Scholar alive as a hiring cost.

I think the "research" feature is way more recent. OTOH, it appears to be targeted at high school students writing an history essay, more than to people discussing phd level algebra.

You know, in the end, the "spec" is what is actually used.

No one except Microsoft accepted that reasoning during the IE6 -era, so why should that be acceptable now?

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