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Disclosure: I am a Google Developer Expert for the Cloud Platform. That means that I have a lot of experience with the platform, but I don't work for Google and I have not been paid to write this. NachoColoma (talk) 20:14, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

could all do with fleshing out

This entry seems somewhat dry and pointless. Is GCP not competing with the likes of AWS and Azure? Better explanation of services offered, the infrastructure, datacentre locations and to whom the services are aimed at would be useful. If the cloud is the future of IT then this could all do with fleshing out. Cloud computing is probably Internet v3.0 and probably the biggest disruption to the Information Technology industry as anything gone before. Why isn't this article a hotbed of debate? Have people not started losing their jobs yet? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.32.232 (talk) 13:51, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree comparing this article to those for Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services it looks pretty sparse. I'll try and contribute some stuff. Still consider myself pretty new to wikipedia so any pointers/guidance on how to go about improving this article would be welcome. Swoophle (talk) 16:23, 17 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Some proposed changes

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Hello, I am an employee of Google Cloud Platform and would like to help update the Wikipedia entry for the company. I've suggested some content here and would like to work with you on to ensure I am updating them properly and according to Wikipedia guidelines. I look forward to working with you.

2620:0:1001:7802:2144:F4EE:56DB:958D (talk) 21:47, 11 January 2017 (UTC) Sudhir Sharma, employee of Google Cloud Platform[reply]

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Hi! Thank you for disclosing the conflict of interest in the talk page. I am not an employee, and I will review your proposed edit from a non-conflict of interest perspective. You've written quite a lot (which is good, don't get me wrong!), but reviewing it won't be done within 5 minutes. I'll get started on reviewing it hopefully later today or later this week. I'd just like to say one thing, though, and that is that I will most likely be changing some stuff in the process. That is mostly because editors with a conflict of interest are often tempted to add non-neutral language, use improper sources, or otherwise show signs of their "bias" even without intention. So when I have time, I'll be reviewing the proposed edit, and making changes based on Wikipedia's guidelines and rules. Thanks for trying to contribute! :) LocalNet (talk) 06:19, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again @Sudhirsharma26: I have now reviewed your edit. First of all, thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikipedia! However, after reviewing what you've written, it comes to my attention that too little of the information has sources. The majority of the links are to other Wikipedia articles. As an example, many of the History items do not feature references to secondary, reliable sources, and the same is true for the "Certifications and Training" and "Usage" sections. The "Compute", "Storage and Databases", "Big Data", "Machine Learning", "Networking", "Identity and Security", and "Management Services" sections feature intricate details that only interest a specific audience. So, I apologize, but at this time, I won't change the page. LocalNet (talk) 09:57, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nomulus

At present, this page doesn't have a great deal of information regarding individual components of GCP. As such, the Nomulus section seemed a bit out of place, so I moved it to its own article Swoophle (talk) 14:51, 20 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Merger discussion

Google Storage itself is a service within the Google Cloud Platform, and Google Storage itself does not have enough reliable sources to establish notability. Hence I propose merging it into this article, or otherwise Google Storage be nominated for deletion. Emphrase - 💬 / 📝 07:00, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with merge. I think it would make more sense for this to be a section in the Google Cloud Platform article, with a search for it redirecting to Google Cloud Platform. --Matt0401 (talk) 08:02, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep it. Not merge. Google Storage as other cloud service storage service are complex and as other services is adding new features frequently, see example of: Amazon S3. Just if needed should be added more reliable sources. Tech201805 (talk) 16:36, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Closing, given the stale discussion with uncontested objection. Klbrain (talk) 19:36, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted Change

Hey @Drmies:,

I noticed you reverted the changes I made to this Google Cloud page. I'm new at all of this Wikipedia editing stuff, so could you let me know why? I work for a training company and we teach classes on using Google Cloud. I figured as a trainer, who knows Google Cloud, I might could help flesh this page out a bit. This edit was my first stab, and I'm a total noob. I include a reference to the reference page I used for the information I altered, but I did do that in my content rather than a bottom of the page thing. I also have learned that I should have included a comment on why I made the change.

Anyway, the content you reverted to is out of date and if you let me know how to properly make the update, I will.

Thanks much.

Cheers

Hagg (talk) 22:57, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hagg. First of all, you didn't explain what you were doing--for all I know you were just making things up. Second, no source was provided for the information, and before you say "the rest wasn't sourced either", yes, but I'm actually itching to remove ALL that stuff. We can't have such unverified information. I'm not sure what you mean with "in my content"--you didn't add any sources, and if you're suggesting that all that info is verified in the link that was already there, "https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/", then you can state that in the edit summary.
On a higher level, the entire article is really s**t--it relies mostly on primary sources, and its contents (except for the equally unverified comparisons) might as well have been pulled off the company website. But yes, an edit summary makes everything better. Even more better are secondary sources... Thanks, Drmies (talk) 17:12, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Drmies‬. Got it. Yes, the information is on the link you referenced, for the most part. You are correct about the content reading like an advertising brochure. In the future, any changes I make I'll make sure to add a why and to add references. As I said, this making changes in Wikipedia is all new to me. Honestly, I think the overall benefit of this entire section is dubious at best. When I have a moment, for now, I will revert to my change, comment on why I made the change, and make sure the reference is clear. In the future, I think it would be much better to simply go with the top section, "Here's GCP, they have X regional data centers, each with 3 zones" and leave off the explicit list. Though, that might just be me :-). I'll also see if I can come up with more useful information and sections. Thanks. Hagg (talk) 18:52, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Massive cookies

The first paragraph claims you need to sign up and provide a credit card to use Google cloud, but I've not asked for it or provided Google with a working current card number.

Nevertheless, this cloud.google.com site will store hundreds of megabytes of cookies on my phone unless I specifically block them.

Blocking them doesn't effect the operation of any of the Google services I actually use. So I guess the question is, what is going on here, and why does it use more space than anything else by a factor of 50. Zaphraud (talk) 13:11, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Regions and zones

Hi,

There are many regions and zones missing in the Regions and zones section. Google cloud has 33 regions and 100 zones.

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 Blocking them doesn't effect the operation of any of the Google services I actually use. So I guess the question is, what is going on here, and why does it use more space than anything else by a factor of 50. [[User:Zaphraud|Zaphraud]] ([[User talk:Zaphraud|talk]]) 13:11, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
+== Regions and zones ==
+Hi,
+There are many regions and zones missing in the Regions and zones section. Google cloud has 33 regions and 100 zones.