When did Google decide to turn to shit? They may not be evil, but who cares about evil if they suck?
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Iván Abrego,
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I'm looking at you, Gmail!
- Gabe
I don't know if it was a decision or just a happening. You get big, you get top heavy, you fall over.
- Laura Norvig
I'd argue that Google has always been shit, so many half-assed/forgetten/neglected attempts at doing something. Nothing ever feels complete and the lack of help makes the products seem more like school projects rather than an actual business. I used to wonder if having to pay for a product would make the experience better, but I doubt it.
- Anika
It sounds crazy, but the University of California is actually migrating their entire e-mail system to GMail. I think Google has always been about "worse is better" paradigm of software development. I mean, it works for most purposes. It's just never pretty or completely functional. But I totally hate all the stupid UI revamps they've been doing lately. I don't get what the advantage of the new UI is supposed to be.
- Victor Ganata
Just read a VF article from September '11 about Google's reaction to being hacked by the Chinese. This says so much: "Google executives reportedly believed that the American government monitors [China's] Internet infrastructure the same way it monitors foreign military threats to keep the geographic homeland secure. A former White House official told me, 'After Google got hacked, they called the NSA in and said, "You were supposed to protect us from this!" The NSA guys just about fell out of their chairs. They could not believe how naive the Google guys had been.'"
- Corinne L
Victor, the City of LA signed a contract with Google and it's been nothing but missteps and errors on behalf of the company. Of course, having an idiot mayor sign such a contract says a lot about him. So many public servants just scoff when you mention the Google contract. Stuff that should have been in place years ago is still not ready and as a citizen, this access Google promised is not there or half-assed.
- Anika
What about Gmail ? Context, please.
- Space Cowboy
The new interface is disgusting.
- Victor Ganata
The problem isn't that they make new interfaces every so often, it's that they don't let you stay with the old one, and the new one sucks. In this case, uses a lot more CPU (even when not doing anything) and memory, is harder to use (lower contrast, meaningless icons), and yet it appears to have no additional features. Gmail has been around for nearly 8 years and it still doesn't have real folders or the ability to sort? WTF kind of a mail reader doesn't let you sort messages?
- Gabe