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.'"

Comments

ObNelson

[6Yankee]

HA-ha!

Gmail gotten evil too

[Anonymous Coward]

My home computer's IP has been blocked since two days ago by Gmail as a bulk mailer. I'm not bulk mailing, the system is clean (yup, Linux), and I've had this DHCP issued IP for months so it's not an inherited issue.

Others on the net mention similar. Couple of examples,
http://www.pandemonium.de/2006/11/03/gmail-is-bloc king-us/
http://malexmedia.net/2006/11/02/gmail_is_blocking _us

There is no way to usefully contact Gmail to tell them they've got a borked system, and of course their error message's info link to Bulk Email Senders Guidelines is completely irrelevant.

Nice one, Google.

Re:Web apps are more susceptible to failure.

[codered82]

Mr. Gates, is that you? Aren't you busy taking our school district superintendent?