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Glitch Has Users Fuming, Google 'Frantic'
netbuzz writes "A problem with Google's Personalized Home Page feature has apparently cost a lot of users their carefully crafted doors to the Internet. And Google, which says it is frantically searching for a fix, also acknowledges that it is not sure if it will be able to recover the lost settings. 'The problem is the latest in what seems a regular stream of technical glitches and availability problems affecting Google's online services. In the past six months, Google services like Blogger, Gmail and Google Apps have all experienced significant technical issues that have left users fuming. The problems highlight one of the risks of relying on hosted applications providers, which offer to house software and its data for individuals and organizations. Google is one of the biggest cheerleaders for this software provisioning model, which many see as a viable option to the traditional approach of having users install applications on their own PCs and servers.'"
Computers break down.
News at 11.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Searching? Have they tried Google?
It's still in beta!
Personal Home Page? I knew they should've have used PHP.
wasn't the first sign of skynet a loss of performance and outages in large distributed computing networks?
Forget losing my data, I'm using the "Seasonal" theme on my Google homepage and it's still showing snow-covered hills and a snowman. It knows from my zip code that I do not live in Siberia or even Buffalo. How is this seasonal!? I think Google should drop everything else and get on this one pronto.
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
not even your email it getting your blood pressure up, you need to get some professional help.
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
Jeez, what a screwup! You'd think that Google would offer to refund affected users their license and subscription fees for the service! I mean if I paid good money for something like that and they messed it up, I'd be hopping mad. I'd take my business to all those other sites that offer all those cool Ajax apps along with the biggest search engine in the world. Not like I was getting something for free or anything!
Oh wait a minute...
I've never lost any text in Word. You may be doing something wrong.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I had enough of that in high school, thanks. Egh.
In Soviet America, Google breaks YOU!
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Oh, right.
Quote: "Just because a company is large does not mean it's trying to steal your soul."
Google, in my opinion, is the "large company trying to steal my soul." Why were Gmail accounts by invite only for so long - and then by text message? Simple: paper trail to track who users are. I view Microsoft as too big and outdated to be smart enough to figure out how to abuse users' privacy concerns. Google is the new big brother - I'm just wondering how long it will be until the general public comes to realize that all of Google's amazingly wonderful and free services come at a steep price: Google owning a piece of your soul.
Oh wait...
I thought all of Google was still in Beta?
Horns are really just a broken halo.
losing. How frigging hard is it to type LOSING instead of LOOSING?
I don't know, you managed to misspell "fucking." How hard was that for you?
Learn to love Alaska
Catastrophe doesn't begin to describe it. I had only just set up my personalised home page and Gmail account and this disaster happens with no explanation.
Please would someone contact me at ';delete * from personalisedsettings;'@gmail.com if they have any news.
Recycle PCs and build a wireless community network www.hillsborough.org.nz
*swoosh*
Fucker.