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Description acceptable. In a blog post predicting these events, Gwern analyzes 123 instances of them and observes that they are unusually common in September. One of these events was moved from August to April 2019 due to the discovery of a bug that affected 50 million users in which APIs could access private profile data. A Guardian article found that the fastest example of this event happened after 175 days and involved “Lively”. After a January 2023 event of this kind, Q-Games looked for ways to port PixelJunk Raiders to a platform without “State Share” functionality. One of these events in 2013 prompted (*) Digg to announce a same-named product the same day and also led to a huge spike in Feedly users. Subjects of these events are sent to an informally-named “Graveyard”, joining Wave and Buzz. For 10 points, identify this kind of event that happened to Stadia in 2023, Reader in 2013, and Hangouts in 2022. ■END■
ANSWER: shutdown of a Google product [accept discontinuation or deprecation or other synonyms in place of “shutdown”; accept Alphabet in place of “Google”; prompt on answers like “shutting down” with “shutting down a product of which company?”] (The second sentence refers to the Google+ shutdown.)
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= Average correct buzz position
| Conv. % | Power % | Average Buzz |
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| 100% | 0% | 136.00 |
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