Talk:Google ATAP

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)


 * 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)


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


 * 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.  Cyber  cobra (talk) 06:55, 25 May 2023 (UTC)


 * The vandal is still at it.  Cyber  cobra (talk) 08:06, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
 * 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.  Cyber  cobra (talk) 08:19, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Same bogus info was added again on 27 August 2023. Cyber cobra (talk) 03:02, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Made a succcessful request for Pending Changes protection. Cyber cobra (talk) 03:57, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

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)
 * 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.  Cyber  cobra (talk) 22:05, 20 May 2024 (UTC)