Quick update: Google woes, cont… from Michael Arrington. Back to my original post –
Strike 1, Strike 2, and Corporate Blog Blues
Strike 1
After all the love…Gmail is starting to bug me with its incessant problems. Not a great way t…

I noticed that there are quite a lot of rather negative postings about Google on sites I often vi…

It took a while, but you finally realized that Google is the next Evil Empire. At least MS didn’t have the temerity to claim that their evil acts were actually disguised benevolence.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sr74/344480729/

Google just needs to take a breath and fix a few little bugs. Everyone that is trying to out Google Google, will capitalize on these things so Google just needs to take a breath and then go full force.

I found Google in 2000 and it was the underdog. To me it will always be that underdog, doing useful things, benevolently, in the face of so much Machiavellian evil in Redmond, in spite of it’s +/- 50% share of the search market.

I think a lot of the comments above are missing the point: this is obviously not a ploy to get more traffic to TechCrunch. I agree that there continues to be balanced reporting. Relating similar issues might be interpreted as a slant here, but that interpretation would be wrong.

What I don’t like is the potential for snowballing negativity that linking 6 recent Google problems has on the perception of reality in the minds of those who won’t read the actual posts. Hopefully informed, rational readers will see past it.

And hey after all these guys are just bloggers who get to shoulder the barrel on their shoulder while someone else fires.

I think it is very interesting to see how Michael is noticing a trend at Google and maybe in about a year after the collapse of the Google empire you will all see how right he was (or maybe not, but it still is newsworthy to me).

When they came out with their Picasa web album invite, I am one of the few who crabbed it first and have been enjoying their service.

I finished my 250Mb photo upload option in few days Since, my storage limit has finished, I had only two option, either to delete the photos I have uploaded, else, upgrade my storage by paying so that, I could upload new photos.

Hence, I decided to pay and opt for 6 GB storage, Since, the time, I have upgraded my storage to 6 GB, for last 15 days, trying day and night, all that I could upload was mere 2 MB of photos, while the free 250MB storage of photo were uploaded in a day or two.

I checked all that possible tweaks, and tricks, even try to use the web browser based upload but not use. I wrote to Google, as usual, when in trouble, Google never replies.

Tried their forums, groups, help, FAQ, no use at all.

The worst think happen is that, I recommended Picasa service two of my friend, who just like me, opt for the paid upgradation of their storage, since, they also, have similar story of not able to upload any photos or if at all they could do just one photo in a day.

So As on now, just sticking back to flickr and riya photo upload service.

So, dear user, be careful, think twice, before upgrading to goggles Picasa 6GB or any paid storage.

People forget that without Google and the ‘long tail’ it created none of this web 2.o ajaxiness would have had as much traction and media coverage.

Techcrunch and other blogs are all about the traffic.

We, the audience, are to blame.

Cheers!

The truth of the matter is that Google is abusing the piles of cash they collected from 401k and pension funds. Why are they spending so much money on projects that they can’t make money on? simple - because they can afford it. Just as microsoft drove dozens of software companies out of the market by giving WordPad for free. In effect - they killed any small company that could have grown to compete with MS-WORD - no matter how good this small company is - they can’t compete with a free product.

Google in effect is doing the same? I work for a software company that actually sells software services. Our products are much higher in quality than google’s. Our customer’s would not tolerate 13 hour downtime!. However, we do charge for services and google doesn’t. They can afford it because they raised 9B $ in cash and wall street allows them to get away with those stupidities.

“To whom much is given, much is expected.”
“Heavy is the head that wears the crown.”
etc., etc.

Beau Dietl? If this is Beau Dietl, you got problsm Micheal lol.

Right now, there are some major issues at Google, and I’m sure as big as they are, they are scrambling this week to fix it all. You know, so the blogosphere will get off their back!

Rex