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- LeonThePro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40@notjamt9000: The new view forces you to search for "pornography"?
- notjamt9000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36Screenshots:
Basically, it was like this:
http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/oldgoogle.png
and now it is like this:
http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/badgoogle.png - JonRohan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+40Screenshot of this? It didn't happen to me.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23mine is fine...
- SirBotchness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17@leonthepro
The internet forces us to search for pornography - johnyboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Yikes! So sorry about this everyone... but thanks so much for coming
here to report it. We're now in frantic-chase-down-this-bug mode here
at the Googleplex, and I hope to have more info for you soon.
For now, we're not entirely sure of this, but it's possible that
changing your homepage theme might cause the problem. SO, if you still
have your homepage intact, please avoid changing your theme until
further notice.
The big question I know you'll all want answered is whether you'll get
your homepage back once we sort things out... and the really honest
answer is that I hope so, but I just don't know yet.
Thanks for all your patience and helpful details. I will update this
thread as soon as I can.
- Jaime
p.s. no need to report this via the contact form that Fun n Frolic Ltd
linked to -- we are definitely aware of the problem, and I'll post to
this thread if there's more info I have or need from all of you. - notjamt9000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18@dadrew1 Well, I considered blanking out my email address, but I hoped I could trust the friendly Digg community, might get something interesting. Should have known better. Sooo, dadrew1@gmail.com , drewflem@gmail.com? André Flamingo Male 24 years old Griffin, GEORGIA, looks like this: http://a844.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00438/34/89/438479843_l.jpg
Mwahahahahahaaaaa - danmed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13This has happened to me.. wtf.. are they going to fix this?
- buffalodan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11mine is the same as it always was....
- rfcn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9happened to me as well....
but it seems we're not the only ones:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Web_Search_Help-Personalizing/topics
bigger problems at google? - dorianh49, on 10/12/2007, -0/+81. Cut a hole in the box...
- navarroj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Just to let everybody know that this message is legit
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Web_Search_Help-Personalizing/msg/8b91d7361a074343 - matrage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+72. Put your junk in that box
- naterose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6yay, an official google person giving us the news!
* crosses arms and looks at johnboy very suspiciously * - StephenCIreland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6if it loses all my feeds im gonna shoot larry and make sergie eat a floppy disk
- Shadow7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Everything's still perfectly fine with mine
- sickanimations, on 10/12/2007, -0/+63. Make her open the box...
- Sultana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6My homepage is still okay...*knocks on wood*
- SoloMalee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yup...me too! The version I see must be about 3 months old. All my Tabs have gone along with all the content I added to the one tab I have left.
Come on Google, don't mess up your updates like MS does! - svinn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Some intern at Google who's never played their usual Thursdays Office-war probably managed to hit their 'personalisation-server' with a rubber duck or a blast from an airzooka. *sigh*...interns...
- dcormier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Works on my box."
- bonstio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5+1
I registered the problem in the Gadgets API group here http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/thread/28095a6222cbb231/943afe7d24d845fe#943afe7d24d845fe as it's a slightly busier group. It's been a couple of hours of downtime now too :-( - ivassilis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It may be useful to suggest not to move or try to recreate your ig page 'cause it keeps resetting. Also, it may be more difficult for Google to decide which version to restore for you (if we have any hope of seeing our beloved multi-tab ig)... In any case, this is totally anti-professional on their part. They should have a backup settings feature working (not beta!) already...
- macatak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah this is really annoying.
- el_jefe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@leonthepro
Yes. Basically Google realized that 98.45555% of people visiting Google were searching for porn, so they decided to make it easier for the masses. - Topslakr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4While I don't pay them money they are still profiting from me using the page. They don't have my money directly but the database of info about me and my online habits has value to them and their partners. I think it is fair for us to complain about these things. The day Google becomes officially evil (you can see it coming.. don't deny it) we are all going to be horrified when we find out just how much we have paid to them.
Side note... My page is fine. - bonstio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's the fact that it keeps on resetting that makes me think that somehow it's a connectivity problem that's screwed all our user settings... and this makes me cling on to the hope that our data will be restored when the connectivity is. *HOPES*
- alperea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6looks like google !=god after all
- Tr33fiddy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yep, this happened to me.
Page full of very important notes gone. Doesn't exactly fill me with confidence in keeping my data on server.
S'pose I'd better have another look at Netvibes. - MattS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5no prob with mine either...
- WozzaShaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thought this was something I did, my whole "to do list" got wiped out. Done sweet FA for the rest of the day in protest.
- proxytoaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have a funny feeling that as more people show up for work this morning this story is going to get picked up a lot more. I like having all my "read the news at these places every day" in one place, and this kind of sucks today.
- trilioth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It was not a problem for me. I use my homepage continuously. It's where I saw this headline.
- MrsHarris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Mine is in the same state... thankfully at present the rest of my googles estate (Analytics, blog, mail, calendar, docs, etc) is still up and running. Lord knows what would happen if all that went!
Perhaps I should start looking into backing some of this stuff up (other than my Gmail which already gets downloaded into Thunderbird, and soon my calendar too hopefully). - godzillaWax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3it wasn't because i changed my theme. it randomly happened half way through the day with me doing nothing
- leoedin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If it was unreliable, I simply wouldn't use it.
Yes, they provide the service for free. Bank accounts are free, but if my bank screws me around, I change.
I lost all my pages (except for a few things and some stuff that I'd never installed.)
It seems everything except the modules initially offered when I signed up (BBC, Slashdot, Wired) are gone...
I updated it again, but if it resets again I'll leave it. I'm pretty sure there's a space where something was though...I just can't remember what :( - DrawingTheSun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i have never changed my theme, the whole thing just broke mid day , i done nothing to it at all
- theHM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The first sign of anythign from google: http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Web_Search_Help-Personalizing/tree/browse_frm/thread/59b3283837690de0/6e88d1045df082db?rnum=91&_done=%2Fgroup%2FGoogle_Web_Search_Help-Personalizing%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F59b3283837690de0%3F#doc_8b91d7361a074343
In short: they're aware of the problem, they're frantically trying to fix it and they don't know if previous settings will be restored. - ngmcs8203, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3They sent me an email yesterday stating that they were upgrading their servers. Maybe this has something to do with it.
- bonstio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're fortunate... my weather gadgets is OK. Well it had two locations stored whereas now it has one but it least it's remembered one.
My bookmarks are nowhere to be seen. - trilioth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have never change my theme.
@godzillaWaz
Johnyboy may have meant whether or not you have EVER changed you theme.
@Johnyboy: If you are from Google thanks for catching this news and getting the ball rolling. - DrawingTheSun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3its still ongoing you moron, and we are still waiting to see if our pages will be restored to the way they were before they vanished
- Daveoh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dude, Google owns the internet. Don't dis.
- Trendecide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2happened to me as well... lost most of my bookmarks and notes. Not a shining moment for Google in my book.
- aflo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hope they fix this soon because a lot of information has been lost
- bonstio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mine got fixed too! Only after I spent an hour setting it up again tho. It got fixed without warning so I lost my new setup which I kind of preferred. Aren't users hard to please?
- BillBoyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, honestly, anytime you have data somewhere, you should have a backup copy. Even if it's on google's server, you can't trust that they've backed your stuff up for you.
Google, maybe it's time you had a backup feature available for us that let us all keep a 'personal status' file on a disk somewhere, that we can load up at a later date. Would be a weird feature a lot of people wouldn't use, but it would be nice for the paranoid (i.e. myself). - CompIsMyRx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know how wipespread this actually is. Mine is fine.
- theOster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1what about the new "type as you go" *not* with your history, but with popular searches?
that is driving me nuts - s-m-a-c-k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3errr... netvibes...
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