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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Why do so many people confuse Google's Firebase (cloud
 API) with Google Services Google Firebase App Indexing (search
 results)?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:57:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
> 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 

premise being ridiculous and illogical. 

>  
> 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.

It's literally all on wikipedia. 

Google had no role in naming Firebase, they simply bought an existing
product.