Talk:Google ATAP

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Resume for Engineer Rubayet Hossain (Omi)

It looks like the Project Soli section has been hijacked into a resume for "Engineer Rubayet Hossain (Omi)"? It should clearly be removed but a reference to him as part of the Project Soli team should probably stay. Baconaetor (talk) 18:53, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I see no reference to him in either of the referenced articles, and a quick Google search doesn't return any results about him being CTO. As such I'll just remove the whole section. Baconaetor (talk) 18:56, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Such apparent attempts at (self-?)promotion of Hossain seems to be a recurring issue. Cybercobra (talk) 20:42, 11 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The iteration of nonsense which OP complained about was added August 25, 2022. An informal, manual search by myself didn't encounter any earlier edits attempting to add this false, self-promotional vandalism. An edit on 2023-May-17 tried yet again to re-vandalize the article. Perhaps WP:PC should be requested if this continues. We keep playing whack-a-mole with IP accounts which haven't engaged in any discussion of these edits thus far. Cybercobra (talk) 06:55, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The vandal is still at it. Cybercobra (talk) 08:06, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The bogus citation used in these edits (A) Is instead for an individual named Kazi Saabique Ahmed; and (B) By a book author whose sheer number of recently-published (likely non-print?) books suggests they're unlikely to be a reliable source on such a wide array of technology topics. I suspect "Fouad Sabry" is a corporate pen-name used to publish content taken from elsewhere. Cybercobra (talk) 08:19, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Same bogus info was added again on 27 August 2023. Cybercobra (talk) 03:02, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Made a succcessful request for Pending Changes protection. Cybercobra (talk) 03:57, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Google ATAP Shutdown?

Although there hasn't been an announcement, it seems that ATAP has been shutdown:

Between 2023-06-19 and 2023-07-23, their YouTube profile picture was deleted.
Between 2023-09-27 and 2023-11-28, the website https://atap.google.com changed to 301 redirect to Google Search
The last blog post was in July 2023
The author of that post and other former employees left Google in March 2024 during the layoffs.
The former heads of engineering and design, along with a few other lead engineers, left a year prior to start Archetype AI, shortly before public activity from ATAP ceased.

All of this is circumstantial, so I'm wondering if there's a better way to mention it in the article. Racer C77 (talk) 13:06, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You might try tipping off a news outlet, who might be able to ask Google directly. If they then publish a story, we'd have a reliable secondary source to cite. A sentence mentioning the 301 redirect sounds appropriate regardless. Cybercobra (talk) 22:05, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]