techcrunch.com— Michael Arrington discusses Google and how everyone jumps and screams everytime they launch a new product. What Google product has really changed our lives, other than Search and Gmail?
Jun 7, 2006View in Crawl 4
Google Search. I has become so bad of late that I went back to using Yahoo and MSN. That was a real shocker, since so much of their screenspace is devoted to advertisments and other useless crap.Google Maps still can't accurately locate my House on a map, and seems to believe that I am 4 houses up and across the street. It's directions for the LA area are remarkably bad and out-of-date compared to...everything else. Gmail is useful for archiving messages that I know Google will be keeping on their servers long after I've deleted them, so it's like a recycle bin for the web. Google Chat isn't used by anybody I know. Picasa has nothing on Flickr. Google Video is a lame version of YouTube, and even Yahoo Video is superior. Google Calendar is a simpler version of Yahoo Calendar, and doesn't sync with Outlook (Screw ICS, I don't want to deal with importing/exporting every time). Google Scholar is merley adequate, and is inferior compared to most academic research databases unless you don't have access to your campus' proxy.Froogle hasn't provided anything other than Ebay spam for months. It was useful when it first came out, but they made serious changes to an otherwise superb application.
Sometimes I just don't get people on the Internet. The "Google love" is coming from hardcore nerdy tech sites who often have a financial interest (Ad Sense) in Google doing well. What you're reading is called propaganda. Just ignore it. Don't waste your time writing essays about how Google hasn't gotten you laid or given you a magical Star Trek transporter service. You end up sounding just as silly as the propagandists.
Um...you can beat free. Free and working, like Hotmail or Yahoo or Fastmail or...most other webmail services. Picasa revolutioned BEFORE it was bought by google, and not again since. Same with Google Earth. Google Maps is a lesser clone to Yahoo Maps (presentation is nicer in Google, but accuracy counts more), Froogle actually undid whatever advances it used to have. Writely was a company before Google, and was working on a spreadsheet application when they were bought.Google isn't good at revolutionizing. They've become the new MS: they make advances by buying other companies.
I feel like the google privacy issue is mostly important to people who feel they have something to hide. Most people don't care that google knows they are searching for a new digital camera. Most people realize that the chances of a real person actually reading your email is worse than getting struck by lightning. Because OMG, it would be the end of the world if someone did read your email!
But the question comes down to if it can Auto Archive, which is not the case I believe then yes that would work. I will agree my analogy will not be perfect in your eyes, but if we had a magical box that really exisited then of course I would want that too. It is more the case that regardless currently you have to Type out your search, which requires extra time + work versus clicking N times to get to a folder. Of course you can not have a tree that is 1000 folders deep because that is pointless. If I try to get to a file(s) I am working on 3 times a day I would have to type out that phrase each time, or partially thanks to suggestions. But if I can click there much faster if it were organized into a hierarchy.
Heyyy.... whats wrong with asking for Bangladesh....i asked for it and i got it... i can see the streets i grew up in... Man leave my country alone... just cause we are poor and corrupted!!!:0
ottoJun 7, 2006
Note that by "Albums" they're referring to sharing your photo albums online on some photo hosting service. Picasa already has albums.
fatdog789Jun 7, 2006
Google Search. I has become so bad of late that I went back to using Yahoo and MSN. That was a real shocker, since so much of their screenspace is devoted to advertisments and other useless crap.Google Maps still can't accurately locate my House on a map, and seems to believe that I am 4 houses up and across the street. It's directions for the LA area are remarkably bad and out-of-date compared to...everything else. Gmail is useful for archiving messages that I know Google will be keeping on their servers long after I've deleted them, so it's like a recycle bin for the web. Google Chat isn't used by anybody I know. Picasa has nothing on Flickr. Google Video is a lame version of YouTube, and even Yahoo Video is superior. Google Calendar is a simpler version of Yahoo Calendar, and doesn't sync with Outlook (Screw ICS, I don't want to deal with importing/exporting every time). Google Scholar is merley adequate, and is inferior compared to most academic research databases unless you don't have access to your campus' proxy.Froogle hasn't provided anything other than Ebay spam for months. It was useful when it first came out, but they made serious changes to an otherwise superb application.
deadbabyJun 7, 2006
Sometimes I just don't get people on the Internet. The "Google love" is coming from hardcore nerdy tech sites who often have a financial interest (Ad Sense) in Google doing well. What you're reading is called propaganda. Just ignore it. Don't waste your time writing essays about how Google hasn't gotten you laid or given you a magical Star Trek transporter service. You end up sounding just as silly as the propagandists.
fatdog789Jun 7, 2006
Um...you can beat free. Free and working, like Hotmail or Yahoo or Fastmail or...most other webmail services. Picasa revolutioned BEFORE it was bought by google, and not again since. Same with Google Earth. Google Maps is a lesser clone to Yahoo Maps (presentation is nicer in Google, but accuracy counts more), Froogle actually undid whatever advances it used to have. Writely was a company before Google, and was working on a spreadsheet application when they were bought.Google isn't good at revolutionizing. They've become the new MS: they make advances by buying other companies.
lukas88Jun 8, 2006
I feel like the google privacy issue is mostly important to people who feel they have something to hide. Most people don't care that google knows they are searching for a new digital camera. Most people realize that the chances of a real person actually reading your email is worse than getting struck by lightning. Because OMG, it would be the end of the world if someone did read your email!
succubuskillerJun 9, 2006
But the question comes down to if it can Auto Archive, which is not the case I believe then yes that would work. I will agree my analogy will not be perfect in your eyes, but if we had a magical box that really exisited then of course I would want that too. It is more the case that regardless currently you have to Type out your search, which requires extra time + work versus clicking N times to get to a folder. Of course you can not have a tree that is 1000 folders deep because that is pointless. If I try to get to a file(s) I am working on 3 times a day I would have to type out that phrase each time, or partially thanks to suggestions. But if I can click there much faster if it were organized into a hierarchy.
topaz82Sep 13, 2006
Heyyy.... whats wrong with asking for Bangladesh....i asked for it and i got it... i can see the streets i grew up in... Man leave my country alone... just cause we are poor and corrupted!!!:0